UTF8 libraries

[John Meacham]

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:40:14AM +0900, shelarcy wrote:
> Hi Alistar,
> 
> On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:01:04 +0900, Alistair Bayley <alistair at abayley.org> wrote:
> > What is the state of UTF8 support in Haskell libraries (base or
> > user-contributed)? I had a need for a UTF8 en & de-coder for Takusen,
> > and after looking around couldn't find anything particularly
> > satisfactory, so ended up writing (yet another) one.
> 
> regex-posix doesn't support UTF8. Because regex-posix uses POSIX
> regex. So this problem can't fixed by only correct UTF8 en & de-coder.

actually, conforming POSIX regular expressions work in the character
encoding of the current locale, which is very likely utf8. In fact,
personally, I would consider any system where it is still not utf8 (or
perhaps ascii, which is compatable) at this day and age to be broken.
(not that they don't exist)


        John

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