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Hi all --<div><br></div><div>Thanks for you thoughts. We will not change the default for the next Squeak release. But after that, we can iterate this issue again and double-check our tests that we do not mess up anything related to text encoding. I am pretty sure that lots of client code forgets to call #ascii or #text after opening up the file stream.</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div>Marcel</div><div class="mb_sig"></div><blockquote class='history_container' type='cite' style='border-left-style:solid;border-width:1px; margin-top:20px; margin-left:0px;padding-left:10px;'>
<p style='color: #AAAAAA; margin-top: 10px;'>Am 20.04.2022 04:24:29 schrieb Chris Muller <asqueaker@gmail.com>:</p><div style='font-family:Arial,Helvetica,sans-serif'>
<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">Am Mo., 11. Apr. 2022 um 14:42 Uhr schrieb Marcel Taeumel<br>
<<a href="mailto:marcel.taeumel@hpi.de" target="_blank">marcel.taeumel@hpi.de</a>>:<br>
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> What do you think should be the default encoding when opening a new file?<br>
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Binary, </blockquote><div><br></div><div>+1, that's what it USED to be, which is why...</div><div> </div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">so no encoding at all :-) Unfortunately text mode has<br>
traditionally been the default, so this would be even more of a<br>
breaking change...<br></blockquote><div><br></div><div>... the fact it already went through a breaking change once, discussions about "default" should basically be rendered moot. No code should rely on such a default, nor expect future readers of the code to remember what the last vote-result for this default was by always explicitly specifying it in your code.
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</div><div><br></div><div>Best,</div><div> Chris</div></div></div>
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