[GHC] #2811: Unicode support for text I/O

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#2811: Unicode support for text I/O
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  Reporter:  igloo             |          Owner:  simonmar        
      Type:  feature request   |         Status:  new             
  Priority:  high              |      Milestone:  6.12 branch     
 Component:  libraries/base    |        Version:  6.10.1          
  Severity:  normal            |       Keywords:                  
Difficulty:  Unknown           |       Testcase:                  
        Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |   Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple
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 This means adding Unicode encoding/decoding for Text I/O handles.

 Consensus was that Text I/O should always use the current locale encoding.

 You can elect to have no encoding by opening in binary mode, but that's
 all.

 Presumably this will need the ability to convert between arbitrary
 encodings internally, so it would make sense to also expose this
 functionality as a library.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/2811>
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