At 2002-08-09 01:19, Sven Moritz Hallberg wrote:

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Whether or not the old Char-based ones should be deprecated, or whatever, I don't know.

I think any notion of treating the _raw_ contents of a file as Chars must go, because it is simply incorrect.

Right. Certainly we need to come up with _correct_ Word8-based file functions, and separately, text-encoding functions. After that we need to consider what is to be done with the existing "expedient" (and conceptually ugly) Char-based file functions. Should they be deprecated, or should we fix them with a particular encoding scheme such as UTF-8 or ISO 8859-1, or what? What about newline handling? etc. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA