Hi, What would you be using the CString for? A CString is really a lot less useful than a ByteString for almost all purposes. If I allready had a ByteString, the only reason I would want to convert it to a CString is to call a C function.
Take care, Antoine On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 7:40 PM, Magicloud Magiclouds <magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com> wrote: > Thanks for the ideas. > In this case, ssh, it is a transfer layer protocol, which means it > does not convert anything. For example the server was using ascii, and > the client was using ascii, then good. If the client was using UTF-8 > instead, then he might get a broken display, ssh itself would not > care. > My idea for CString is because in C, this is easy, "I" do not pay > attention to which encode the given string is using. > But I am not sure how CString works. If it just convert things into > ASCII, then it is bad. > > On Thu, Dec 23, 2010 at 7:18 PM, Max Bolingbroke > <batterseapo...@hotmail.com> wrote: >> On 23 December 2010 05:29, Magicloud Magiclouds >> <magicloud.magiclo...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> If so, OK, then I think I could make a packInt which turns an Int >>> into 4 Word8 first. Thus under all situation (ascii, UTF-8, or even >>> UTF-32), my program always send 4 bytes through the network. Is that >>> OK? >> >> I think you are describing the UTF-32 encoding (under the assumption >> that fromEnum on Char returns the Unicode code point of that >> character, which I think is true). UTF-32 is capable of describing >> every Unicode code point so this is indeed non-lossy. UTF-32 is a >> reasonable wire transfer format (if a bit inefficient!). >> >> Don't roll your own encoding logic though, System.IO provides a >> TextEncoding for UTF-32 you can use to do the job more reliably. >> >> Cheers, >> Max >> > > > > -- > 竹密岂妨流水过 > 山高哪阻野云飞 > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
