IO functions which are used when reading from standard input and writing to standard output. Uses the UTF-8 character encoding under versions of the base library up to 4.1, and whatever the locale specifies under base 4.2 (and later?; only if the locale is supported, see System.IO).
Note that hSetEncoding
can be used to change the behaviour of the
functions below if base 4.2 (or later?) is used.
Documentation
hGetContents :: Handle -> IO StringSource
Returns the stream represented by the handle lazily.