Data.Text.Lazy.IO.Utf8

Data.Text.Lazy.IO for the modern world.

Wrappers around simple file reading/writing functions from the text package that reset the handle encoding to UTF-8.

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readFile :: MonadIO m => FilePath -> m Text

Like readFile, but assumes the file is encoded in UTF-8, regardless of the current locale.

writeFile :: (MonadIO m, MonadMask m) => FilePath -> Text -> m ()

Like writeFile, but encodes the data in UTF-8, regardless of the current locale.