>E.g. what happens if you call getDirectoryContents for a directory
>which contains filenames which aren't valid in the current encoding?
Surely this shows the problem with the idea of a 'current encoding'
... You could be reading files from two remote servers each using
different encodings...
So you could have read and write raw [Word8] and read and write char,
somehting like:
readWithEncoder :: ([Word8] -> [Char]) -> IO [Char]
writeWithEncoder :: ([Char] -> [Word8]) -> [Char] -> IO ()
After all, how can you 'normalise' a filename to a standard encoding
if you don't have a function to do so. Infact if you encounter
a server with an encoding you have no converter for, you have no
choice but to treat it as raw bytes?
Keean.
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