On 26.06.10 15:44, Felipe Lessa wrote:
On Sat, Jun 26, 2010 at 09:29:29AM +0300, Roman Beslik wrote:
Incorrect encoding of filepaths is common in e.g. Cyrillic Linux
(because of multiple possible encodings --- CP1251, KOI8-R, UTF-8)
and is solved by fiddling with the current locale and media mount
options. No need to change a program, or to tell character encoding
to a program. It is not a programming language issue.
If your program saves files using filepaths given by the user or
created programatically from another filepath, then you don't
need to decode/encode anything and the problem isn't in the
programming language.
However, suppose your program needs to create a file with a name
based on a database information. Your database is UTF-8. How do
you translate that UTF-8 data into a filepath? This is the
problem we got in Haskell. We have a nice coding-agnostic String
datatype, but we don't know how to create a file with this very
name.
It is simple — you recode from (database | "network server" | file)
encoding to the current locale.
--
Best regards,
Roman Beslik.
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