OutputStream has writeStringW and printf methods, but in what encoding characters are written to the stream? As I can see there is no division to *byte* streams and *text* writers as in .Net.

On 26/04/2008, terranium <spam@here.lot> wrote:
> OutputStream has writeStringW and printf methods, but in what encoding characters are written to the stream?
>  As I can see there is no division to *byte* streams and *text* writers as in .Net.

I don't know for sure, but I suspect that the implementation probably just writes without validating, so you could probably get away with just casting a ubyte array to to a char array.

That said, std.stream is antiquated. I believe it was one of the earliest Phobos libraries, and I suspect it was written largely to avoid dependency on C functions. Phobos streams are long overdue for a revamp, and that may well happen sooner rather than later.

terranium wrote:

> OutputStream has writeStringW and printf methods, but in what encoding characters are written to the stream? As I can see there is no division to *byte* streams and *text* writers as in .Net.

I would recommend looking at the streams in Tango instead.

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Personally, I tend to use the C functions, fopen(), fclose(), etc..
They're rock solid, bog standard, and work with both D1 and D2.

> I would recommend looking at the streams in Tango instead.
does it work with dmd2?

terranium wrote:

>> I would recommend looking at the streams in Tango instead.
> does it work with dmd2?

Not yet, I'm afraid.

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