Glynn Clements wrote:
[...]
main :: IO ()
main = do
h - openBinaryFile out.dat WriteMode
hPutStr h $ map (octetToChar . bitsToOctet) bits
hClose h
Hmmm, using string I/O when one really wants to do binary I/O gives me a bad
feeling.
Abraham Egnor wrote:
Passing a Ptr isn't that onerous; it's easy enough to make functions
that have the signature you'd like:
import System.IO
import Data.Word (Word8)
import Foreign.Marshal.Array
hPutBytes :: Handle - [Word8] - IO ()
hPutBytes h ws = withArray ws $ \p - hPutBuf h p $
Glynn Clements wrote:
The problem with this approach is that the entire array has to be held
in memory, which could be an issue if the amount of data involved is
large.
Simple reasoning: If the amount of data is large, you don't want the overhead
of lists because it kills performance. If the
Sven Panne wrote:
Also, changing the existing functions to deal with encodings is likely
to break a lot of things (i.e. anything which reads or writes data
which is in neither UTF-8 nor the locale-specified encoding).
Hmmm, the Unicode tables start with ISO-Latin-1, so what would
Sven Panne [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
Hmmm, the Unicode tables start with ISO-Latin-1, so what would exactly break
when we stipulate that the standard encoding for string I/O in Haskell is
ISO-Latin-1? Additional encodings could be specified e.g. via a new open
variant.
That the encoding of
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
But the default encoding should
come from the locale instead of being ISO-8859-1.
The problem with that is that, if the locale's encoding is UTF-8, a
lot of stuff is going to break (i.e. anything in ISO-8859-* which
isn't limited to the 7-bit ASCII subset).
Glynn Clements [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
But the default encoding should
come from the locale instead of being ISO-8859-1.
The problem with that is that, if the locale's encoding is UTF-8, a
lot of stuff is going to break (i.e. anything in ISO-8859-* which
isn't limited to the 7-bit ASCII
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
But the default encoding should
come from the locale instead of being ISO-8859-1.
The problem with that is that, if the locale's encoding is UTF-8, a
lot of stuff is going to break (i.e. anything in ISO-8859-* which
isn't limited to the 7-bit ASCII
