David Roundy wrote:
"\r\n" as newline should die a rapid death... windows is hard enough without maintaining this sort of stupidity.
Windows *does* do a number of very silly things. However, Windows isn't going away any time soon. And personally, I'd prefer it if we could make it easier to support it in Haskell. I think a pure function that takes text formatted in any way and transforms it into some kind of "canonical" form would be a useful starting point. You'd probably want a platform-specific inverse function too. (I notice that FilePath manages to work differently on different platforms, so it's possible.) Currently the only way to do these transformations is to set the right channel mode at the instant you read the text. If we had a set of pure functions, you could transform the text after it's read - even if it's read in the wrong file mode, or you don't know whether it's text or binary until later.