Hi Arie, If you don't mind binding code. You can try to use GIO APIs from my repository: http://patch-tag.com/r/AndyStewart/gio-branch/home
GIO APIs handle unicode filename every well, and cross-platform. Cheers, -- Andy Arie Peterson <ar...@xs4all.nl> writes: > After upgrading to haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0, with the improved unicode > support for IO in ghc-6.12, I hoped to be able to deal with filenames > containing non-ascii characters. This still seems problematic, though: > > $ ls > m×n♯α > $ ghci > GHCi, version 6.12.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help > Prelude> :m +System.Directory > Prelude System.Directory> getDirectoryContents "." >>= mapM_ putStrLn > .. > mÃnâ¯Î± > . > > I hope this passes through the various email systems unharmed; on my > terminal, the output of 'ls' contains shiny unicode characters, while > 'ghci' garbles up the filename. (My locale is en_GB.utf8.) > > Similar problems arise with functions such as 'copyFile', which refuses to > handle filenames with non-ascii characters (unless wrapping it with > encoding functions). > > > Is this a known problem? I searched ghc's trac, but there are no relevant > bugs for the component 'libraries/directory'. > > > I have parts of a unicode-aware layer on top of System.Directory laying > around somewhere. I was rather hoping to ditch it, but I can polish it and > put it on hackage, if people are interested. > > > Kind regards, > > Arie _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe