Marshalling Haskell String <-> UTF-8

[David Roundy]

On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:13:23AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:16:23AM +0100, Bayley, Alistair wrote:
> > I want to call a foreign C function that takes a UTF-8 encoded string
> > as one of its arguments (and there's also a version of the function
> > that receives UTF-16). Can someone point me to documentation or
> > examples of how this would be done? AFAICT (reading the FFI spec)
> > marshalling a String to a CString is locale-dependent, whereas I know
> > that I want UTF-8/16.
> 
> The locale-dependent marshalling of CString described by the FFI spec
> isn't yet implemented in the library.  There is some code by John Meacham
> including UTF-8 conversion at
> 
> 	http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ffi/2003-August/001355.html

You could also look at the darcs source code, as darcs uses UTF8 to store
file names.
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David Roundy
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