[Haskell-cafe] Encoding-aware System.Directory functions

[John Millikin]

On Wed, Mar 30, 2011 at 21:07, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <
ivan.miljenovic at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 31 March 2011 14:51, John Millikin <jmillikin at gmail.com> wrote:
> > Linux, OSX, and (probably?) FreeBSD use UTF8.
>
> For Linux, doesn't it depend upon the locale rather than forcing UTF-8?
>

In theory, yes. There are environment to specify the locale encoding, and
some applications attempt to obey them.

In practice, no. Both Qt and GTK+ use UTF8 internally, and react poorly when
run on a non-UTF8 system. Every major distribution sets the locale encoding
to UTF8. Setting a non-UTF8 encoding requires digging through various
undocumented configuration files, and even then many applications will
simply ignore it and use UTF8 anyway.
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