[Haskell-beginners] hGetContents, unicode and linux

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Yitzchak Gale wrote:

> You can check to see what encoding GHC has picked up from your
> environment by examining localeEncoding.

How do I do that? TextEncoding doesn't seem to be Showable.

> You can force the encoding to UTF-8 by
> 
> hSetEncoding stdin utf8
> hSetEncoding stdout utf8
> 
> All of the above in the context of import System.IO, of course.

Thank you. My program:

    main :: IO ()
    main
     = do   h <- openFile "unicode.txt" ReadMode
            hSetEncoding h utf8
            hSetEncoding stdout utf8
            text <- hGetContents h
            putStr text

now works as it should.

Cheers,
Erik
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