On Tuesday 03 February 2009 19:42:44 Simon Marlow wrote:
> I've been working on adding proper Unicode support to Handle I/O in GHC,
> and I finally have something that's ready for testing. I've put a patchset
> here:
>
> http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/base-unicode.tar.gz
>
> ... skipped ...
>
> Comments/discussion please!
>
How do you plan to handle filenames? Currently FilePath is simply a string.
Would it be decoded/encoded automatically? If so there is a nasty catch. Not
all valid filenames have representation as strings. On linux (and I suspect
all unices) file name is sequence of bytes.
For example let consider file with name {0xff} on computer with UTF8 locale.
It's valid and everything, but its name cannot be converted to string. 0xff
byte cannot appear in UTF8 strings.
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Khudyakov Alexey
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