В сообщении от 24 апреля 2010 03:50:54 John Goerzen написал: > Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote: > > John Goerzen <jgoer...@complete.org> writes: > >> ghci > >> GHCi, version 6.12.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help > >> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. > >> Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. > >> Loading package base ... linking ... done. > >> Prelude> :m System.Process > >> Prelude System.Process> runCommand "echo привет" > >> ?...@825b > > > > Are you arguing about IO-specific stuff like this, or for all non-ASCII > > Strings? > > I'm not sure I understand the question. I consider the behavior in > System.IO to be well-documented. The behavior in System.Process is not > documented at all. As I said, I'm not certain what the proper answer > is, but not documenting what happens probably isn't it. > > Actually, the behavior of openFile when given a String with characters > > 0xFF is also completely undocumented. I am not sure what it does with > that. It should probably be the same as runCommand, whatever it is. > Under unices file names are just array of bytes. There is no notion of encoding at all. It's just matter of interpretation of that array.
There is a problem with FilePath data type. It's String actually but it should be abstract data type. There is relevant bug[1] on GHC trac. P.S. openFile truncates Chars. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3307 _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
