>> Language of messages is quite different >> from language of a file you read. (...)
> Yes, it's a fundamental limitation of the > unix locale system and multi-user > systems. However it's no less wrong than > just picking UTF8 all the time. (...) Am I wrong to think that UTF8 should be THE standard? I believe it can encode anything encoded by other encodings. Can't we consider non-utf8 text as "legacy"? I don't like that word, but I do think it is the right way to go for text. If you know your text has a diferent encoding, just use 'iconv' to convert it, or a special Haskell library for conversion. That will make life difficult for a few, but make life a lot easier for programers and users. Maurício _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
