[r6rs-discuss] [Formal] Improve port i/o.

[Per Bothner]

Michael Sperber wrote:
> The best way to let a Scheme program make use of iconv
> is to provide it as is, and let the program invoke it explicitly.

Are you seriously proposing that people whose locale uses a
non-Unicode encoding would need to explicitly invoke iconv
in order to write "Hello world"?

>> * We need to have some way of layering textual i/o on top of binary
>>   i/o.
> 
> No, we can, but we don't need to to.  Layering is one option in the
> design space.

A text file or network port is *inherently* layered on top of a byte
stream.
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