On Tue., 24 Jul. 2018, 10:13 Sven Van Caekenberghe, <s...@stfx.eu> wrote:
> > > > 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. > +1 I didn't suggest this earlier because it isn't backward compatible. But I do think it is the better solution. Cheers, Alistair (on phone)
