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

[Yitzchak Gale]

Ketil Malde wrote:
> If we want to incorporate a translation layer, I think it's fair to
> only support UTF-8 (ignoring locales), but provide a workaround for
> invalid characters.

I disagree. Shells and GUI dialogs use the current locale.
I think most other modern programming languages do too, but
correct me if I am wrong.

Still, your ideas about dealing with decoding errors sound useful.

Regards,
Yitz