26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
8:34 a.m.
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 13:22 +0000, Simon Marlow wrote:
So some alternatives that fix this are
1. all text I/O is in the locale encoding (what C and Hugs do)
2. stdin/stdout/stderr and terminals are always in the locale encoding, everything else is UTF-8
I was initially confused about how this one was different from what I first proposed. The difference is that I was suggesting stdin/stdout/stderr be in the locale *only* if thet're connected to a terminal, rather than always.
3. everything is UTF-8
Personally I'm not really fussed about which compromise we pick. I think the more important point is that all the Haskell implementations pick the same compromise so that we can effectively standardise the behaviour. Duncan