On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:09 AM, Don Stewart
igloo:
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 01:26:52PM -0800, Donald Bruce Stewart wrote:
duncan.coutts:
It's no use pretending that readFile returns Unicode, it just doesn't (except on Hugs which does it properly). GHC is not going to catch up on this any time soon.
Why don't we use the existing, portable UTF8 IO package?
I'd much rather we fix the IO library that's already in the corelibs than add a second one to work around it.
I wonder if that's suitable for a SoC project?
Add System.IO.UTF8.{readFile,writeFile} to the base library?
I'd rather see that we add a more general solution for reading and writing Unicode than add two functions specialized for UTF-8 that we can't remove later when we do have a less ad-hoc solution. -- Johan