This seems wrong - these default ports need to be character ports.

For normal "simple" use-cases people are reading and writing text, not
binary.
The nullary read, read-char, peek-char, and read-line default to
current-input-port - which thus should be character ports.
Likewise for write, display, etc.

current-input-port and current-output-port are seldom bound to binary
files: In a Unix-like-pipeline or re-direction, the data are almost
always text.  If standard input is UTF-8, you may need to read multiple
bytes for each read-char.

Note also that in R6RS these are textual ports.

Please fix!
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	--Per Bothner
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