There is a Cabal package for this already:
http://hackage.haskell.org/package/setlocale
A call to `setLocale LC_ALL (Just "")` in `main` fixes things.
--
Jason Dusek
2009/11/13 Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@web.de>:
> Am Samstag 14 November 2009 00:00:36 schrieb Jason Dusek:
>> I'm binding to `wcwidth` to determine the column widths of
>> various Unicode characters. I noticed a lot of -- in fact all
>> -- Chinese characters were being given widths of `-1` when of
>> course they should have width `2`. This only showed up when I
>> compiled my program though -- within GHCi, it never happened.
>
> It seems that ghci calls setlocale(LC_ALL,"") or similar, while the compiled
> code doesn't.
> I've no idea why that would be, but
>
> da...@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell/CafeTesting> cat locl.h
> void sloc();
> da...@linux-mkk1:~/Haskell/CafeTesting> cat locl.c
> #include <locale.h>
> #include "locl.h"
>
> void sloc(){
> setlocale(LC_ALL,"");
> }
>
>
> main = do
> setloc
> (sequence_ . fmap (UTF8.putStrLn . uncurry fmt)) widths
> where...
>
> foreign import ccall unsafe "locl.h sloc" setloc :: IO ()
>
> fixes it.
>
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