#3977: Support double-byte encodings (Chinese/Japanese/Korean) on Windows
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Reporter: shelarcy | Owner:
Type: feature request | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: 7.2.1
Component: libraries/base | Version: 6.13
Keywords: | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Difficulty:
Os: Windows | Blocking:
Architecture: Unknown/Multiple | Failure: Incorrect result at runtime
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Comment(by batterseapower):
IME it is very common for PCs in China to be using one of the double-byte
code page settings, since there is still a ton of software out there that
uses the legacy Windows APIs. I imagine the situation is the same in
Japan/Korea but I have no direct experience.
Of course, even if DBCS is commonly used the localeEncoding is not as
useful on Windows as it is on *nix in the context of GHC since we will
mostly just call into the *W APIs and thus sidestep the locale entirely...
which probably makes this ticket a low priority. In particular my upcoming
patch set to implement PEP383 behaviour should support CJK without having
a double-byte-aware localeEncoding.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3977#comment:9>
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