On Tue, Mar 15, 2005 at 10:44:28AM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Mon, Mar 14, 2005 at 07:38:09PM -0600, John Goerzen wrote: > > I've got some gzip (and Ian Lynagh's Inflate) code that breaks under > > the new hugs with: > > > > <handle>: IO.getContents: protocol error (invalid character encoding) > > > > What is going on, and how can I fix it? > > A Haskell 98 Handle is a character stream, and doesn't support binary > I/O. This would have bitten you sooner or later on systems that do CRLF
Yes, probably so.. > conversion, but Hugs is now much stricter, because character streams now > use the encoding determined by the current locale (for the C locale, that > means ASCII only). Hmm, this seems to be completely undocumented. So yes, I'll try using openBinaryFile, but the docs I have seen still talk only about CRLF and ^Z. Anyway, I'm intrested in this new feature (I assume GHC 6.4 has it as well?) Would it, for instance, automatically convert from Latin-1 to UTF-16 on read, and the inverse on write? Or to/from UTF-8? Thanks, -- John -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
