Yes, you can set the text encoding on the handle you're reading this text from [1]. The default text encoding is determined by the environment, which is why I asked about LANG.
If you're entering literal strings, see Albert Lai's answer. Erik [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/base/latest/doc/html/System-IO.html#g:23 On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 19:13, dokondr <[email protected]> wrote: > Is there any other way to solve this problem without changing LANG > environment variable? > > > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 8:27 PM, Erik Hesselink <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> What is the value of your LANG environment variable? Does it still >> give the error if you set it to e.g. "en_US.UTF-8"? >> >> Erik >> >> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 13:12, dokondr <[email protected]> wrote: >> > Correct url of a "bad" string: >> > >> > http://twitter.com/#!/search/Hoping%20You%20Have%20A%20iPhone%20When%20I%20Do%20This%20lang%3Aen >> > >> > >> > On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:08 PM, dokondr <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> >> >> Hi, >> >> In GHC 7.0.3 / Mac OS X when trying to: >> >> >> >> writeFile "someFile" "(Hoping You Have A iPhone When I Do This) Lol >> >> Sleep >> >> Is When You Close These ---> \55357\56384" >> >> >> >> I get: >> >> commitBuffer: invalid argument (Illegal byte sequence) >> >> >> >> The string I am trying to write can also be seen here: >> >> >> >> >> >> http://twitter.com/#!/search/Hoping%20You%20Have%20A%20iPhone%20When%20I%20Do%20This%20lang%3Aen >> >> >> >> It looks like 'writeFile' can not write unicode characters. >> >> Any workarounds? >> >> >> >> Thanks! >> >> Dmitri >> >> >> >> >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > >> > _______________________________________________ >> > Haskell-Cafe mailing list >> > [email protected] >> > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe >> > > > > > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
