Re: H98 Text IO

Duncan Coutts wrote:

So here is a concrete proposal:

* Haskell98 file IO should always use UTF-8. * Haskell98 IO to terminals should use the current locale encoding.

Personally, I'd find this deeply surprising. I don't care that much what locale gets used for I/O (if it matters, you have to deal with it explicitly anyway) as long as it is consistent. I'm probably mistaken, but doesn't this proposal mean that I can't implement cat in H98 using text I/O? That would be a bit disturbing. Also, would this affect the encoding used for file names? If so, how? Roman