On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Don Stewart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> igloo:
>
> > On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:26:52PM -0800, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
> > > duncan.coutts:
> > > >
> > > > It's no use pretending that readFile returns Unicode, it just doesn't
> > > > (except on Hugs which does it properly). GHC is not going to catch up
> on
> > > > this any time soon.
> > >
> > > Why don't we use the existing, portable UTF8 IO package?
> >
> > I'd much rather we fix the IO library that's already in the corelibs
> > than add a second one to work around it.
> >
> > I wonder if that's suitable for a SoC project?
>
> Add System.IO.UTF8.{readFile,writeFile} to the base library?
I'd rather see that we add a more general solution for reading and
writing Unicode than add two functions specialized for UTF-8 that we
can't remove later when we do have a less ad-hoc solution.
-- Johan
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