[GUI] Another RFC on setting and getting.

[Axel Simon]

On Tue, Apr 08, 2003 at 09:40:11PM +0100, Glynn Clements wrote:
> I suspect that similar issues will arise regarding I18N (do we discuss
> those on the GUI list or the I18N list?). One toolkit may dictate that
> everything is UTF-8 encoded. Motif uses compound text (basically
> ISO-2022 encoding, with some restrictions). Athena just treats the
> data as an octet stream, and it's up to the programmer (or user) to
> ensure that the font uses the same encoding as the data.

As with the concurrency issue, this should be as transparent to the 
Haskell programmer as possible. Haskell uses Unicode characters, 
converting to whatever the toolkit uses is mandatory IMHO.

Axel.