[Haskell-cafe] Re: Ready for testing: Unicode support for Handle I/O

Simon Marlow wrote:

The only change to the existing behaviour is that by default, text IO is done in the prevailing encoding of the system. Handles created by openBinaryFile use the Latin-1 encoding, as do Handles placed in binary mode using hSetBinaryMode.

wouldn't be semantically correct for a "binary handle" to "return" [Word8]? also switching from text to binary (hSetBinaryMode) doesn't seem "natural" I understand that this has "heavy" consequences... Pao