Marshalling Haskell String <-> UTF-8

[John Meacham]

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

I should mention I have a new version of the CWString library in
development that conforms to the new FFI spec and works on all posixy
systems, not just those that have unicode wchar_t's like my first
posting.  

It is not quite ready for release, but if there is a strong need I can
package it up nicely. 
        John
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