
30 Jan
2005
30 Jan
'05
8:58 p.m.
On Sun, Jan 30, 2005 at 07:39:59PM +0000, Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote:
* If I use hPutStr on a string, is it guaranteed that the number of 8-bit bytes written equals (length stringWritten)?
Yes, if the handle is opened in binary mode. No if not.
Thank you for the informative response. If a file is opened in text mode, what encoding does Haskell grok on input? And what encoding does it generate on output? I'm assuming it's UTF-8 on output, but I don't know for sure. Thanks, John