Good afternoon, Well, I think there should probably be some internationalisation mechanism that tells the "show" function (to name one), according to some configuration, how to interpret a byte as a character.
Frankly, I see no good reason why we should be satisfied we the dinosaurus 7 bits except perhaps because 7 bits is sufficient for english. I am talking about respect for non english speaking people. But if nobody cares ... Cheers, Francis Girard LE CONQUET France Selon Max Kirillov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:49:26AM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > Good morning, > > > > The following haskell program : > > > > --<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< > > module Main where > > > > accentLetters :: String > > accentLetters = "יאפ" > > > > main :: IO () > > main = do putStr (show accentLetters) > > -->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>> > > > > after being compiled will give the result : > > > > "\233\224\244" > > > > But, exactly the same program, without the "show" function will give the > result: > > > > יאפ > > > > Is there some way to have "show" show all the printable characters, even > those > > represented by a value greater than the US-ASCII 7 bits (127) ? > > > > The specific octet may be printable character or not depending on your > charset. For instance, your letters are printable in koi8-r (showing > upper Russian I YU T), but not in cp866 (al least recode cp866..koi8-r > fails on them). > > The "show" function represents your over-127 bytes in portable and > readable (by read) way and, I think, it does right. > > -- > Max > _______________________________________________ > Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list > [EMAIL PROTECTED] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users > _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
