On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 11:13:23AM +0100, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Wed, Sep 01, 2004 at 10:16:23AM +0100, Bayley, Alistair wrote: > > I want to call a foreign C function that takes a UTF-8 encoded string > > as one of its arguments (and there's also a version of the function > > that receives UTF-16). Can someone point me to documentation or > > examples of how this would be done? AFAICT (reading the FFI spec) > > marshalling a String to a CString is locale-dependent, whereas I know > > that I want UTF-8/16. > > The locale-dependent marshalling of CString described by the FFI spec > isn't yet implemented in the library. There is some code by John Meacham > including UTF-8 conversion at > > http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/ffi/2003-August/001355.html
You could also look at the darcs source code, as darcs uses UTF8 to store file names. -- David Roundy http://www.abridgegame.org/darcs _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users