Re: [Pharo-users] Pharo 7 file streams guideline

[Sven Van Caekenberghe]

> On 23 Jul 2018, at 12:07, Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> 
> Stdio stdout and friends just return a binary stream, hence they need 
> wrapping for encoding.
> 
> Maybe
> 
>  Stdio stdoutAsText
> 
> might be an idea, but this is so uncommon that I am not sure this is a good 
> idea.

Given all remarks and comments (thanks BTW), I now think that

- textual stdio streams are the more common case
- binary stdio streams are the primitive ones that are seldom used
- another encoding than UTF-8 seems uncommon
- these are streams that exist and need no real opening/closing

So,

  Stdio stdout

should return return a character write stream with UTF-8 encoding while

  Stdio binaryStdout

should be the lower level binary one.
This would be more in line with the other streams.
A non-UTF-8 encoding can be used as per Pavel's example.