* Matthias Kilian <k...@outback.escape.de> [130112 01:00]:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, Jan 11, 2013 at 07:31:22AM +0400, Alexander Polakov wrote:
> > > Maybe, but what now? Mention it in the manpage or add a readme file
> > > to the package? As I said, it' poorly documented (in
> > > lang/ghc/patches/patch-libraries_base_System_IO_hs)
> >
> > Why not something like this?
> >
> > if ((l = getenv("LC_CTYPE")) && (e = strstr(l, "UTF-8")))
> > return e;
> > return "latin1";
>
> Because it's a little bit ugly, and it's incomplete. There are some
> more environment variables involved (LC_ALL, even LANG, iirc). I
> really don't want to hack something that simulates proper handling
> of locales (that was the reason I used HS_ENCODING in the first
> place).
Well, I agree that it looks ugly..
Readme is probably the best way to handle this (and this thread seems
to be high on google for "ghc unicode openbsd").
--
Alexander Polakov | plhk.ru
