Re: (random) musings on I/O disciplines

[Bart Lateur]

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. I want plain Mac text files,
and plain Mac text, on a Mac. Sure, I like the idea of converting
ISO-Latin-1 text files into Mac format or back, or turn any kind of text
into UTF8 (the real thing, not native text encoded as UTF8). But it
should be my call.

-- 
        Bart.