Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

Michael Snoyman wrote:

On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 2:20 PM, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic < ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:

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Michael Snoyman writes:

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I don't think *anyone* is asserting that UTF-16 is a common encoding for files anywhere, *ahem* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-16/UCS-2#Use_in_major_operating_systems_and...

I was talking about the contents of the files, not the file names or how the system calls work. I know at least on Windows, Linux and FreeBSD, if you open up the default text editor, type in a few letters and hit save, the file will not be in UTF-16.

OSX, TextEdit, plain text mode is UTF-16 and cannot be altered. Also, if you load a UTF-8 plain text file in TextEdit it will be garbled because it assumes UTF-16. For html files you can choose the encoding, which defaults to UTF-8. But for plain text, it's always UTF-16. OSX is also fond of UTF-16 in Cocoa... -- Live well, ~wren