09 Aug 2002 10:17:21 +0200, Sven Moritz Hallberg <pesco@gmx.de> pisze:

I argue _strongly_ against associating some sort of locale state with handles.

1) In agreement with Ashley's statements, file IO should use octets, because that's what's in a file.

So it would imply two types raw Handles for binary data and wrapped text Handles for strings. You don't want to force users to explicitly perform the conversion over and over I hope? Wrappers would look as IO now. But I don't see much point in separating those Handles. And it would be more efficient if conversion could be done internally on the C side (locale-dependent encoding functions are available from C) coupled with Handle buffers, rather than going through a pure Haskell interface in the middle. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/