On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 05:02:32PM +0000, Simon Marlow wrote: > > Basically, imagine a reversible transformation: > > encode :: String -> [Word8] > decode :: [Word8] -> String > > this transformation is applied in the appropriate direction by the > IO library to translate filesystem paths into FilePath and vice > versa. No information is lost
I think that would be great if it were true, but it isn't: $ touch `printf '\x80'` $ touch `printf '\xEE\xBE\x80'` $ ghc -e 'System.Directory.getDirectoryContents "." >>= print' ["\61312",".","\61312",".."] Both of those filenames get encoded as \61312 (U+EF80). Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
