[Haskell-beginners] Encoding strings

[aditya siram]

To install it (or any other module) I usually look up the module on
Hayoo [1]. It will tell you the source package. In this case it is
'utf8-string' so just do:
> cabal install utf8-string.

-deech

[1] http://holumbus.fh-wedel.de/hayoo/hayoo.html

On 4/8/10, legajid <legajid at free.fr> wrote:
> Hi,
> i've  found another solution : instead of putStr (show text), i just
> write putStr text.
>
> As a remaining problem, i don't how to install cabal in order to install
> the desired module.
>
> Thanks,
> Didier.
>
>
> aditya siram a écrit :
>> This is because of Unicode strings. You need to import
>> "Codec.Binary.UTF8.String" and use:
>> decodeString :: String -> String
>> and
>> encodeString :: String -> String
>>
>> hth,
>> deech
>>
>>
>> On 4/7/10, legajid <legajid at free.fr> wrote:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> i experiment problems writing files.
>>> Reading an access 97 database and displaying data in a wxhaskell grid,
>>> everything is correct.
>>> When i write data in a text file, some characters are translated : "é"
>>> becomes \233.
>>>
>>> How to correct this ?
>>> I looked for hSetEncoding but didn't find it in System.IO, nor in
>>> GHC.IO.Handle that doesn't exist on my system.
>>> I tried hSetBinaryMode, without success.
>>>
>>> If this helps, I run ghc 6.10.4 on windows XP.
>>>
>>> Thanks for an idea,
>>> Didier.
>>>
>>>
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>>
>>
>