[Haskell-cafe] unicode filenames advice

Yves Parès limestrael at gmail.com
Tue Feb 15 20:57:33 CET 2011


I noticed the same issue under ubuntu when feeding my program (i.e. on the
command line) file names with special characters (my locale is fr_FR.UTF-8).
I discovered I had to use Codec.Binary.String.UTF8.decodeString. I didn't
know it was only for Unix.


2011/2/11 Joey Hess <joey at kitenet.net>

> I've been trying to deal with how my haskell program handles unicode
> filenames. Been dealing with problems like those described here:
>
> http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3307
>
> Or, simply demonstrated by feeding unicode to getLine >>= readFile
>
> My approach currently is to carefully identify any point where
> a FilePath is output, and run it through a filePathToString (which
> varies by OS), as suggested in the above bug report.
>
> Is there a less tedious and error-prone way? What is the best approach
> to use now, assuming that these issues will be dealt with in some way
> in Haskell, eventually?
>
> --
> see shy jo
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