UTF-16//ROUNDTRIP encoding behaves weirdly
Try this program:
module Main where
import System.IO
main = do
roundtrip_enc <- mkTextEncoding "UTF16//ROUNDTRIP"
h <- openFile "out.temp" WriteMode
hSetEncoding h roundtrip_enc
hPutStr h "Hi\xEFE8Hi"
It fails with:
hSetEncoding: invalid argument (Invalid argument)
If you change UTF16 to UTF-16 (so we use the builtin encoding rather than iconv) it works, but the output file only contains the first Hi.
I think part of what is going on here is that iconv does not generate EILSEQ for identity transformations such as that between a UTF-16 text file and our UTF-16 CharBuffers. Since we never get that exception, we can't fix up the lone surrogates we use to encode roundtrip characters.