On Sep 12, 2007, at 10:18 , Andrea Rossato wrote:
supposed that, in a Linux system, in an utf-8 locale, you create a
file
with non ascii characters. For instance:
touch abèèè
Now, I would expect that the output of a shell command such as
"ls ab*"
would be a string/list of 5 chars. Instead I find it to be a list of 8
chars...;-)
That is expected. The low level filesystem storage doesn't know
about character sets, so non-ASCII filenames must be encoded in e.g.
UTF-8. 8 characters is therefore correct, and you must do UTF-8
decoding on input because Haskell does not do so automatically.
This will also be true with getdirent() aka getDirectoryContents.
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