09 Aug 2002 10:17:21 +0200, Sven Moritz Hallberg <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> pisze:
> I argue _strongly_ against associating some sort of locale state with
> handles.
>
> 1) In agreement with Ashley's statements, file IO should use octets,
> because that's what's in a file.
So it would imply two types raw Handles for binary data and wrapped
text Handles for strings. You don't want to force users to explicitly
perform the conversion over and over I hope? Wrappers would look as
IO now.
But I don't see much point in separating those Handles. And it would
be more efficient if conversion could be done internally on the C side
(locale-dependent encoding functions are available from C) coupled with
Handle buffers, rather than going through a pure Haskell interface in
the middle.
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