Hello Roman, Sunday, June 27, 2010, 11:37:24 AM, you wrote:
>>> No! The target encoding is the current locale. It is a no-brainer to >> not necessarily. current locale, encoding of current terminal and >> encoding of every filesystem mounted are all different things > And we should stick to the current locale. Problem solved. > "6.3 CString > The module CString provides routines marshalling Haskell into C strings > and vice versa. The marshalling converts each Haskell character, > representing a Unicode code point, to one or more bytes in a manner > that, by default, is determined by the *current locale*." > "The Haskell 98 Foreign Function Interface." 1. it doesn't work on practice. ghc provides simple 8-bit conversion and i think a lot of code relies on this behavior 2. when you mount external/network volume, it doesn't necessarily has the same encoding as your current locale -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulat.zigans...@gmail.com _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
