26 Feb
2008
26 Feb
'08
9:18 a.m.
Simon Marlow wrote:
Duncan Coutts wrote:
Let's call this one proposal 0:
* Haskell98 file IO should always use UTF-8. * Haskell98 IO to terminals should use the current locale encoding.
and the others:
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
3. everything is UTF-8
Some other points that came up on IRC:
- there's a long precedent for behaving differently when connected to
a terminal. For example, 'ls' formats output in columns when
connected to a terminal, or displays output in colour. This is
a point in favour of (0).
- we might expect that "prog file" behaves the same as "prog