[Hugs] #87: Strange writeFile behaviour

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#87: Strange writeFile behaviour
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  Reporter:  guest   |       Owner:  nobody
      Type:  defect  |      Status:  new   
  Priority:  major   |   Milestone:        
 Component:  hugs    |     Version:  200609
Resolution:          |    Keywords:        
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Comment (by ross):

 Character I/O in Hugs uses the encoding specified by the current locale.
 If chr 128 is being mapped to two bytes, your locale is probably
 specifying UTF-8.  You can set your locale (LC_CTYPE) to use ISO8859-1 if
 desired.  If you want binary output, use writeBinaryFile.

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