On Sat, Jun 13, 2009 at 8:41 PM, Shu-yu Guo<s...@rfrn.org> wrote: > Hello all, > > It seems like getDirectoryContents applies codepage conversion based > on the default program locale under Windows. What this means is that > if my default codepage is some kind of Latin, Asian glyphs get > returned as '?' in the filename. By '?' I don't mean that the font is > lacking the glyph and rendering it as '?', but I mean 'show (head > (getDirectoryContents "C:\\Music"))' returns something that looks like > like "?? ????". > > This is a problem as I can't get the filenames of my music directory, > some of which are in Japanese and Chinese, some of which have accents. > If I change the default codepage to Japanese, say, then I get the > Japanese filenames in Shift-JIS and I lose all the accented letters. > > I have filed this as a bug already, but is there a workaround in the > meantime (I don't know the Win32 API, but didn't see anything that > looked like it would help under System.Win32 anyways) that lets me > gets the list of files in a directory that's encoded in some kind of > Unicode?
Try taking a look at the code in the following module, which uses FFI to access the Unicode-aware Win32 APIs: http://code.haskell.org/haskeline/System/Console/Haskeline/Directory.hsc Hope that helps, -Judah _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
