On Friday 07 May 2010 17:05:08, Dupont Corentin wrote: > Hello, > i'm still struggling with ghci and accents. > > Prelude> "é" > "\233"
That uses the Show instance of Char, which escapes all characters greater than '\127' ('\DEL'), so that's no problem, jut inconvenient. > > I've installed GHC 6.12.1, which gave me a better result: > > Prelude> putStrLn "é" > é putStrLn doesn't escape printable characters. > > but still: > > Prelude> "é" > "\233" That's interpreted as print "é" which is putStrLn (show "é") , hence escaped. > > I'm trying to search a file with french words with Regex, but i > stumble on accents: > > *Main> findRegexFile "abnégation" > [] > *Main> findRegexFile "abn.gation" > ["abn\218gation","abn\218gations"] > Okay, your file seems to have a weird encoding. Prelude> putStrLn [toEnum 218] Ú > > I don't know the encoding of my file, how to deduce it? > What is the encoding used by ghci? Unicode? I think it uses the system locale and defaults to utf-8 if it can't determine the locale. > Its seems not be the same since the représentation for "é" is not the > same (\233 and \218). > How to have accented characters in ghci? Can't find any ressources on > the net. > > Cheers, > Corentin > > PS: please let me know is you can't see the accented characters in > this email, i'll send you another version with pictures. > > On 3/24/10, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljeno...@gmail.com> wrote: > > Dupont Corentin <corentin.dup...@gmail.com> writes: > >>> a <- readFile "list.txt" > >>> head $ lines a > >> > >> "abn\233gation" > >> > >> putStrLn displays a strange character for the "é". > > > > That is the escaped form of é. You have several options: > > > > 1) Use the utf8-string package for I/O > > 2) Use the text package for I/O (and set an encoding) > > 3) GHC 6.12.1 uses the system's locale for encoding; as such if your > > system normally lets you see accented characters then putStrLn, > > etc. will print them out. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe