Re: H98 Text IO

I came to the same conclusions. I think using either the current encoding or utf8 are perfectly reasonable interpretations of the standard. Jhc used to use the current locale always, but now it uses utf8 always as that was easier to make portable to other operating systems. (though current locale support will likely be added back at some point) I think this is a-okay as far as haskell 98 goes. Assuming latin1 without doing an 'openBinaryFile' is certainly not okay in my book. John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈