Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings and utf-8

Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:

However, the IO system truncates [characters] to 8 bits. I Should this be considered a bug? I presume that its because <stdio.h> was defined in the days of ASCII-only strings, and the functions in System.IO are defined in terms of <stdio.h>. But does this need to be the case in the future?

Unfortunately I don't know enough about Unicode IO to judge. Paul.