Text in Haskell: a second proposal

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-08-09 01:19, Sven Moritz Hallberg wrote:

>> Whether or not the old Char-based ones should be deprecated, or whatever, 
>> I don't know.
>
>I think any notion of treating the _raw_ contents of a file as Chars
>must go, because it is simply incorrect. 

Right.

Certainly we need to come up with _correct_ Word8-based file functions, 
and separately, text-encoding functions. After that we need to consider 
what is to be done with the existing "expedient" (and conceptually ugly) 
Char-based file functions. Should they be deprecated, or should we fix 
them with a particular encoding scheme such as UTF-8 or ISO 8859-1, or 
what? What about newline handling? etc.

-- 
Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA