Re: [Haskell-cafe] invalid character encoding

On Sat, Mar 19, 2005 at 12:55:54PM +0100, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

Glynn Clements writes:

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The point is that a single program often generates multiple streams of text, possibly for different "audiences" (e.g. humans and machines). Different streams may require different conventions (encodings, numeric formats, collating orders), but may use the same functions.

A single program has a single stdout and a single filesystem. The contexts which use the locale encoding don't need multiple encodings.

That's not true, there could be many filesystems, each of which uses a different encoding for the filenames. In the case of removable media, this scenario isn't even unlikely. -- David Roundy http://www.darcs.net