[Haskell-cafe] A 3 line program --> Reid, Don, Daniel

[Ketil Malde]

Colin Paul Adams <colin at colina.demon.co.uk> writes:

>     Brandon> So yes, it's reasonable to "blame" the language (spec).

On the other hand, the sooner users can get moving to utf-8, the sooner
we can get eliminate these kinds of problems.

> Note also that it mentions the Unicode character set, not a particular
> Unicode encoding scheme.

> To me that implies that an implementation must support all 7 encoding
> schemes, not just UTF-8.

...but not latin1, which appeared to be the problem here.

> At which point you probably want to make use of iconv, so you might as
> well support all iconv-supported encodings.

Interestingly, Wikipedia [0] says that "Unicode-aware programs are
required to display, print and manipulate [UTF-32 and -16]", although no
source is provided for this requirement.

But until somebody actually has Haskell sources in a Unicode-encoding
different from utf-8, I'd much prefer developers to spend their time on
something more useful.

(And the workaround is just one line in a Makefile, isn't it?)

-k

[0] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparison_of_Unicode_encodings
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