On 27.06.10 03:58, Felipe Lessa wrote:
On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 02:55:33AM +0300, Roman Beslik wrote:
On 26.06.10 15:44, Felipe Lessa wrote:
However, suppose your program needs to create a file with a name
based on a database information. Your database is UTF-8. How do
you translate that UTF-8 data into a filepath? This is the
problem we got in Haskell. We have a nice coding-agnostic String
datatype, but we don't know how to create a file with this very
name.
It is simple — you recode from (database | "network server" | file)
encoding to the current locale.
Recoding is indeed very simple. You know the source coding
(e.g. your database is in UTF-8). But how do you discover the
target coding? How can you find out that this system uses
ISO8859-1, while this other one uses UTF-16, while...?
See the problem now? :)
No! The target encoding is the current locale. It is a no-brainer to
find it. Use your Unix.
$ man setlocale
$ locale
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Best regards,
Roman Beslik.
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