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

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

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