On Tue, Sep 08, 2009 at 20:12:25 +0100, Ganesh Sittampalam wrote: >> It was just brought to my attention that GHC is getting a new IO system. >> I'm not sure which release this will debut in, maybe 6.12. > > Yep. > >> As I understand it, we won't need utf8-string anymore once this hits.
In case this helps, here is the obligatory utf-8 patch metadata bug http://bugs.darcs.net/issue64 > That's correct (well, once we've dropped support for 6.10, which I guess > is a couple of years off). One thing we need to check for is that we're > not doing openFile rather than openBinaryFile on a binary file and then > expecting to get back a list of Chars that are actually Word8 - because > that assumption will suddenly break - but it's unlikely we are doing that > given that it would also break line-ending characters on Windows if we > did. Would we not need to be doing openBinaryFile on all files text and binary alike? [I'm assuming we need to retain the behaviour of being completely encoding agnostic wrt to file contents except for expecting newlines] http://bugs.darcs.net/issue267 may be of interest -- Eric Kow <http://www.nltg.brighton.ac.uk/home/Eric.Kow> PGP Key ID: 08AC04F9
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