I noticed the same issue under ubuntu when feeding my program (i.e. on the command line) file names with special characters (my locale is fr_FR.UTF-8). I discovered I had to use Codec.Binary.String.UTF8.decodeString. I didn't know it was only for Unix.
2011/2/11 Joey Hess <[email protected]> > I've been trying to deal with how my haskell program handles unicode > filenames. Been dealing with problems like those described here: > > http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3307 > > Or, simply demonstrated by feeding unicode to getLine >>= readFile > > My approach currently is to carefully identify any point where > a FilePath is output, and run it through a filePathToString (which > varies by OS), as suggested in the above bug report. > > Is there a less tedious and error-prone way? What is the best approach > to use now, assuming that these issues will be dealt with in some way > in Haskell, eventually? > > -- > see shy jo > > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (GNU/Linux) > > iQIVAwUBTVWRnckQ2SIlEuPHAQiCZQ//XDhguOgPZsakn1r6AwsvGn9iWRS00KFL > JWvqnhcrbXa2oWIrQLgtiC5AFNO6zVMYn36xmpUbutzBXbg6xiTRMqR8PI9xUihK > Foamq6jhdPRP2wkZ6E5hEwlcrivdPJ6NgXzwoLNFFfmGWyzBW5yp2wdUFyw5yyab > z+xurC0ZDFT+86j8aja3WASyiXPdzzeH38Q3oh0tguPOPfBwdI5QEBRP/bScD9aS > 4I/4Yg6duf0/ubcqP/dG6EmNSLx54K8+DEmCPdTrSd6AD1/8PWXddKp3VMPEuyrt > dDgylm5PqIHtM4+wzvKnhFe4e1bEs3VcplFB5AMmKk0Xqe55JzUfneSyjRl5jMJc > 7oJK9LFdz9YlVKfruELSVS6LRqgMY75s8877+WWr9/woW3YytVXpnrosTeNnvqY7 > 5ibLaBxL2h8dscmkje6h/E3rox5/vaUAqyLvbFa8mn1AKwuHwA+6UcXW7FPpTp7+ > o44JHOsN2aEJYYvz7EgrxJuAqk3Pdj1R7YD3OxIhgvRZhjldt9FlCTdLp0s+P4pW > unqu+vxgA8MZAoB4DlJ8DadoPxtcEH6hDRSt4u9JKzaAVxo58Do5sM92x5ekOCr0 > DMJ9NuzLzdUtfxH2Bw4qF6j81GOW8fuXwZtpIB9YsZzlTGx6uGx1u9Q25vdkR3eO > Y8KGur5CCGs= > =Fyl1 > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > [email protected] > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > >
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