[r6rs-discuss] Stateful codecs and inefficient transcoding

[John Cowan]

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?

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