[Haskell-cafe] Has character changed in GHC 6.8?

[Duncan Coutts]

On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 12:56 +0300, Miguel Mitrofanov wrote:
> >   > chr . ord $ 'å'
> >   '\229'
> > What would I have to do to get an 'å' from '229'?
> 
> It seems you already have it; 'å' is the same as '\229'.

Yes.

>  But IO output is still 8-bit, so when you ask ghci to print 'å', you get '\229'.

No. :-)

if you 'print' it you get:

print 'å'
= putStrLn (show 'å')
= putStrLn "\229"

this has nothing to do with 8-bit IO. It's just what 'show' does for
Char.

If you..
putStrLn "å"
then you do get the low 8 bits being printed. But that's not what is
going on above.

>  You can use utf-string library (from hackage).

import qualified Codec.Binary.UTF8.String as UTF8
putStrLn (UTF8.encodeString "å")

or just:

import qualified System.IO.UTF8
UTF8.putStrLn "å"


Duncan