#2811: Unicode support for text I/O
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Reporter: igloo | Owner: simonmar
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: high | Milestone: 6.12 branch
Component: libraries/base | Version: 6.10.1
Severity: normal | Resolution:
Keywords: | Difficulty: Unknown
Testcase: | Os: Unknown/Multiple
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple |
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Comment (by duncan):
Replying to [ticket:2811 igloo]:
> You can elect to have no encoding by opening in binary mode, but that's
all.
With the existing H98 and System.IO api, yes.
> Presumably this will need the ability to convert between arbitrary
encodings internally, so it would make sense to also expose this
functionality as a library.
Not arbitrary character sets or encodings thereof, just to and from
Unicode.
Note that there is already a library that provides converting between
pairs of character sets and encodings - the iconv package on hackage. We
could probably make another lib that provides a portable lowest common
denominator of that and the Win32 encodings API.
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