Re: (random) musings on I/O disciplines

At 10:10 PM 9/30/00 +0200, Bart Lateur wrote:
>On Wed, 27 Sep 2000 16:56:37 -0400, Dan Sugalski wrote:
>
> >My gut feel is that there'll be a "default encoding" for filehandles and we
> >*won't* try and get clever.
>
>My gut feeling says that the text read from file should be treated as
>native text, and should remain native text.

That was what I had in mind for the default encoding used by filehandles, 
though Larry might have something else in mind. (Hope not, though)

					Dan

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