[Haskell-cafe] Re: Unicode workaround for getDirectoryContents under Windows?

Simon Marlow marlowsd at gmail.com
Tue Jun 16 11:54:02 EDT 2009


On 16/06/2009 16:44, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
> Hello Simon,
>
> Tuesday, June 16, 2009, 7:30:55 PM, you wrote:
>
>> Actually we use a mixture of CRT functions and native Windows API,
>> gradually moving in the direction of the latter.
>
> so file-related APIs are already unpredictable, and will remain in
> this state for unknown amount of ghc versions

Sometimes fixing everything at the same time is too hard :-)

In fact there's not a lot left to convert in System.Directory, as you'll 
see if you look at the code.  Feel like helping?

Cheers,
	Simon


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