RE: Proposal for a new I/O library design

John Meacham writes:

please can we figure out portable binary IO before worrying about i18n?

But I thought Ben's proposal included portable binary I/O? Input/OutputStreams do I/O in terms of Octets, not Chars. It's important to at least think about how text tranformations are layered on top of the binary I/O layer, because making a wrong decision could be costly in terms of performance later. Cheers, Simon