On Sun, Mar 20, 2005 at 12:59:52PM +0000, Keean Schupke wrote:
How can I do the following (ie what are the new API calls):
Open a file with a name that is invalid in the current locale (say a zip disc from a computer with a different locale setting).
A new API is needed for this.
Open a file with contents in an unknown encoding.
What are the new binary API calls for file IO?
see System.IO
What type is returned from 'getChar' on a binary file. Should it even be called getChar? what about getWord8 (getWord16, getWord32 etc...)
Char, of course. And yes, it's not ideal. There's also a byte array interface.
(I guess I now have to rewrite a lot of file IO code!)
If it was doing binary I/O on H98 Handles, it already needed rewriting. There's nothing to be done for filenames until a new API emerges.