[Haskell] Unicode advice request
Don Stewart
dons at galois.com
Fri Mar 14 14:40:30 EDT 2008
kalman:
> Excuse me if this question is misplaced or too trivial.
>
> I'm writing a CGI program in Haskell (CGI/HDBC/Sqlite3), the database
> contains UTF-8 strings. If I use HDBC.fetchRow() to retrieve the data,
> then HDBC.fromSql() to convert the data to Haskell, then Text.XHtml
> constructs to dsplay it, I get wrong results in the browser (ASCII
> rendering of UTF-8 characters, which looks like garbage). What is the
> way to do this correctly?
You may need to write the strings to the database using the utf8-string
package.
Also, if you're never actually decoding the data, it may be your CGI app
generating a page with the wrong content type. When starting up your CGI
app, set the content type to utf8,
main = runFastCGIorCGI $ ...
setHeader "Content-type" "text/plain; charset=utf-8"
...
So check the headers being generated are of the correct type.
Cheers,
Don
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