Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Sorry, I think we've been talking at cross purposes.
I think so.
>> There always has to be *some* conversion from a 32-bit Char to the
>> system's selection, right?
>
> Yes. In text mode there is always some conversion going on. Internally
> there is a byte buffer and a ch
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 17:39 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:56:13PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > > Thanks to suggestions from Duncan Coutts, it's possible to call
> > > > hSetEncoding even on buffered read Handles, and the right thing
> > > > happens. So we can read fr
On Tue, Feb 03, 2009 at 10:56:13PM +, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> > > Thanks to suggestions from Duncan Coutts, it's possible to call
> > > hSetEncoding even on buffered read Handles, and the right thing
> > > happens. So we can read from text streams that include multiple
> > > encodings, such as
On Tue, 2009-02-03 at 11:03 -0600, John Goerzen wrote:
> Will there also be something to handle the UTF-16 BOM marker? I'm not
> sure what the best API for that is, since it may or may not be present,
> but it should be considered -- and could perhaps help autodetect encoding.
I think someone el
Simon Marlow wrote:
> I've been working on adding proper Unicode support to Handle I/O in GHC,
> and I finally have something that's ready for testing. I've put a patchset
> here:
Yay!
Comments below.
> Comments/discussion please!
Do you expect Hugs will be able to pick up all of this?
> Th
