UTF-8 library

[Martin Norbäck]

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tor 2002-08-08 klockan 15.12 skrev Axel Simon:
> On Thu, Aug 08, 2002 at 02:58:42PM +0200, Martin Norbck wrote:
> > There rarely should be a need to handle UTF-8 text internally in
> > Haskell, but for FFI it would be neccessary. Using locale automatically
> > there is wrong, since gtk2 uses UTF-8 always, and other interfaces uses
> > iso-8859-1 always. However, having some conversion functions could neve=
r
> > hurt, but they need not be in the FFI.
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> Sure it is necessary to explicitly state what kind of conversion you want
> when you talk to your C library. So IMHO the only question that really
> remains is whether readFile, withCString and all other standard I/O=20
> function should assume UTF-8 by default or the current locale. I opt for=20
> the latter.

Since readFile and writeFile handles Strings, they must be locale
dependent.

Should they fall back to the most common 8-bit format (iso-8859-1) or
throw an excaption when encountering illegal multi-byte sequences?

Regards,

	Martin

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