[xmonad] spawn functions are not unicode safe
Khudyakov Alexey
alexey.skladnoy at gmail.com
Wed Jan 14 17:46:47 EST 2009
Hello.
There is problem with `spawn' function as well with *spawn family from
XMonad.Util.Run. They mangle unicode symbols which are passed to them. This
is because they make use of `executeFile' which silently truncate each letter
to one byte.
Simplest workaround is to use utf8-string package. It would work only on
systems with UTF8 locales but now they are majority I hope.
> import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String
> -- | Unicode safe spawn
> spawnU :: MonadIO m => String -> m ()
> spawnU = spawn . encodeString
The same possible for all *spawn functions. I think it's worth to include
unicodified versions to XMonadContrib but not sure is there anyone who need
such functionality
--
Alexey Khudyakov
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