On Tue., 24 Jul. 2018, 10:13 Sven Van Caekenberghe, <sven@stfx.eu> wrote:
On 23 Jul 2018, at 12:07, Sven Van Caekenberghe <sven@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)