[Haskell-cafe] Umlauts in command line arguments

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Eric,

Friday, June 5, 2009, 12:17:42 AM, you wrote:

>> I'm using ghc 6.10.2 on Win XP. Are there any known solutions for this
>> problem?

> Your question has inspired me to add a System.Environment.UTF8 module
> to utf8-string 0.3.5

> This module behaves like the System.IO.UTF8 wrapper.

it is useless on Windows, since it passes cmdline in ANSI code page
rather than UTF-8. proper windows solution is using *W version of
WIN API function to get UTF-16 string and then decode it


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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com