On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 06:49:59AM -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:06:15PM +0200, Ketil Malde wrote:
On Wed, 2007-09-12 at 17:40 -0700, Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Thu, Sep 13, 2007 at 12:23:33AM +0000, Aaron Denney wrote:
Unfortunately, at this point it is a well entrenched bug, and changing the behaviour will undoubtedly break programs. ... There should be another system for getting the exact bytes in and out (as Word8s, say, rather than Chars),
I'm pretty sure Hugs does the right thing.
..which makes me wonder what the right thing actually is?
Since IO on Unix (or at least on Linux) consists of bytes, I don't see how a Unicode-only interface is ever going to do the 'right thing' for all people.
I never said it was Unicode-only.
hGetBuf / hPutBuf - Raw Word8 access getChar etc - Uses locale info
The problem is that the type of openFile and getArgs is wrong, so there's no "right" way to get a Handle (other than stdin) to read from in the first place, unless we're willing to allow the current weird behavior of treating a [Char] as [Word8]. -- David Roundy Department of Physics Oregon State University