I'd venture a guess that implementing any string encoding support in a language I'm not that familiar with would likely be quite an undertaking.
If not, then it also begs the question - if it's just that simple, why's it not already there in the core alongside UTF-8?
Anyone new to the language working through data problems is going to pick it up and start at the data collection/wrangling stage, and immediately run into the 'you can implement that yourself/run it through a converter' mentality, and likely go back to whatever they were using before. I know we did.
If not, then it also begs the question - if it's just that simple, why's it not already there in the core alongside UTF-8?
Anyone new to the language working through data problems is going to pick it up and start at the data collection/wrangling stage, and immediately run into the 'you can implement that yourself/run it through a converter' mentality, and likely go back to whatever they were using before. I know we did.