[r6rs-discuss] Stateful codecs and inefficient transcoding

From: Shiro Kawai <shiro>
Date: Tue Oct 31 19:44:30 2006

From: John Cowan <cowan_at_ccil.org>
Subject: Re: [r6rs-discuss] Stateful codecs and inefficient transcoding
Date: Tue, 31 Oct 2006 19:07:35 -0500

> Shiro Kawai scripsit:
>
> > Right. In Gauche, we support mixing binary and textual I/O
> > natively in the port, while support transcoding by port layering.
>
> How can you do textual I/O natively in the port if the port does
> not know what the encoding is?

We have the "default encoding" chosen at the compile time.
The basic port naively assumes the text is in that encoding.

--shiro
Received on Tue Oct 31 2006 - 19:46:02 UTC