[Haskell-cafe] I/O and utf8

John Meacham john at repetae.net
Mon Jan 9 18:08:44 EST 2006


On Sun, Jan 08, 2006 at 11:26:05AM +0000, Andreas Kägi wrote:
> hello
> i want to read a file encoded in utf8 and at a later time output portions of it
> on the console. Is there an easy way to do this in haskell? using the standard
> i/o functions i can read the file but the output gives me \1071 ... instead of
> the unicode characters. 

Jhc does all of its IO in utf8. CharIO is a drop in replacement for the
standard prelude routines which converts everything to and from UTF8

http://repetae.net/john/repos/jhc/CharIO.hs
http://repetae.net/john/repos/jhc/UTF8.hs

        John

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