behaviour change in getDirectoryContents in GHC 7.2?

[Ian Lynagh]

On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 07:02:09PM +0000, Max Bolingbroke wrote:

[snip some stuff I didn't understand. I think I made the mistake of
entering a Unicode discussion]

> This is why the unmodified PEP383 approach is kind of nice - it uses
> lone surrogate (rather than private use) codepoints to do the
> escaping, and these codepoints are simply not allowed to occur in
> valid UTF-encoded text.

If they do not occur, then why does it matter whether or not occurrences
would get escaped?

They are allowed to occur in Linux/ext2 filenames, anyway, and I think
we ought to be able to handle them correctly if they do.


Thanks
Ian