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# Binary I/O
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It is widely regarded as a mistake that H'98 treats I/O as character-based. The proposal is that I/O should operate over octets (i.e. 8-bit binary values) instead. This would permit the layering of character-encoding conversions (see [Unicode](unicode)) over the top of the basic I/O mechanism.
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Pros:
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- cleans up an area of confusion
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- backwards compatible with all implementations
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