Hi.

I wonder does not stdout and stdin are always about text input/output?

I never saw examples when somebody explicitly write raw bytes into these streams.

If I am right then it is better to introduce binaryStdout and binaryStdin messages. And make stdout and stdin use most common encoding by default. How it is done in Java?

2018-07-23 19:19 GMT+01:00 Alistair Grant <akgrant0710@gmail.com>:

Hi Pavel & Sven,

Thanks for writing this, it is a great quick reference.

On Mon, 23 Jul 2018 at 12:08, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
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> > On 23 Jul 2018, at 11:13, Ben Coman <btc@openinworld.com> wrote:
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> > I like all the new code examples until�� "Write a UTF-8 text to STDOUT"
> > and I wonder "Stdio stdout�� writeStreamDo: [ :stream | stream
> > nextPutAll: 'a �� b' ]"�� would better fit the pattern of the other new
> > code.
> > (presuming "Stdio stdout" returns a FileReference, oherwise maybe
> > "Stdio stdoutRef" or "Stdio stdout asFileReference")
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> Stdio stdout and friends just return a binary stream, hence they need wrapping for encoding.
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> Maybe
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>�� Stdio stdoutAsText
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> might be an idea, but this is so uncommon that I am not sure this is a good idea.

I've written this code enough times that I'd like to see it included. :-)

Maybe

Stdout utf8Stdout

(following the pattern of ByteArray>>utf8Decoded, String>>utf8Encoded)

?

Thanks again,
Alistair