[Haskell-cafe] Strings and utf-8

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Reinier,

Thursday, November 29, 2007, 1:13:24 PM, you wrote:

>>>>IMHO, someone should make a full proposal by implementing an alternative
>>>>System.IO library that deals with all these encoding issues and
>>>>implements H98 IO in terms of that.

>>http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Streams already exists
>>  
>>
> Which would mean that we have streams to do character I/O, ByteString to
> do binary I/O, and System.IO to do, eh, something in between.

this means only that such proposal exists. i've worked on adding
bytestream support too, but don't finished the work. at least it's
possible. i hope that new i/o library will have modular design like
this so it will be easy to add new features as 3rd-party libs


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com