On Wed, Mar 16, 2005 at 03:54:19AM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > Do you have a list of functions which behave differently in the new > release to how they did in the previous release? > (I'm not interested in changes that will affect only whether something > compiles, not how it behaves given it compiles both before and after).
I got lost in the negatives here. It affects all Haskell 98 primitives that do character I/O, or that exchange C strings with the C library. It doesn't affect functions added by the hierarchical libraries, i.e. those functions are safe only with the ASCII subset. (There is a vague plan to make Foreign.C.String conform to the FFI spec, which mandates locale-based encoding, and thus would change all those, but it's still up in the air.) > Finally, the hugs behaviour seems a little odd to me. The below shows 4 > cases where iconv complains when asked to convert utf8 to utf8, but hugs > only gives an error in one of them. In the others it just truncates the > input. Is this really correct? It also seems to behave the same for me > regardless of whether I export LC_CTYPE to en_GB.UTF-8 or C. It's a bug: an unrecognized encoding at the end of the input was being ignored instead of triggering the exception. Now fixed in CVS (rev. 1.14 of src/char.c if anyone's backporting). It was an accident of this example that the behaviour in all locales was the same. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
