Hello,
What I don't understand is why you want show for this. As I
mentioned earlier, to output strings and get accented
characters, all you have to do is to output the string with
putStr, and voilà, les signes diacritiques.
Sometimes, I want to do cheap and dirty test programs that shows
This discussion is getting a little out of hand ;-)
An instance of Show should (but doessn't have to):
- generate a rendering of its argument as a String that
(a) follows the Haskell lexical syntax, and
(b) with an appropriate instance of Read can reconstruct the
Hallo!
On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:55:27PM +0100, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Well, I think there should probably be some internationalisation
mechanism that tells the show function (to name one), according to
some configuration, how to interpret a byte as a character.
My understanding is that
Good evening,
OK. I don't know Haskell enough to argue.
But I can't resist pointing out that reading a single byte having the value 233
(that is 'é') is certainly simpler than reading the four characters \233,
parse it, and translate it into a single byte having the value 233 representing
no
On 2003-12-18 at 16:40+0100 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Good evening,
OK. I don't know Haskell enough to argue.
But I can't resist pointing out that reading a single byte
having the value 233 (that is 'é')
The problem is that if you are reading single bytes, 233 is
not necessarily é. It
I would support the point of view that show should output escapes when
showing characters outside ASCII. This is sort of a transport format
(together with read), therefore it must be a GCD for all possible input
encodings.
UTF-8 might be alternative, but it would require to be equally
The following haskell program :
--
module Main where
accentLetters :: String
accentLetters = éàô
main :: IO ()
main = do putStr (show accentLetters)
--
after being compiled will give the result :
\233\224\244
But, exactly the same program, without the show function
will
