Good afternoon,
Well, I think there should probably be some internationalisation mechanism that
tells the "show" function (to name one), according to some configuration, how
to interpret a byte as a character.
Frankly, I see no good reason why we should be satisfied we the dinosaurus 7
bits except perhaps because 7 bits is sufficient for english.
I am talking about respect for non english speaking people.
But if nobody cares ...
Cheers,
Francis Girard
LE CONQUET
France
Selon Max Kirillov
Good morning,
The following haskell program :
--<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< module Main where
accentLetters :: String accentLetters = "éàô"
main :: IO () main = do putStr (show accentLetters) -->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
after being compiled will give the result :
"\233\224\244"
But, exactly the same program, without the "show" function will give the result:
éàô
Is there some way to have "show" show all the printable characters, even
On Tue, Dec 16, 2003 at 07:49:26AM +0100, francis.girard@free.fr wrote: those
represented by a value greater than the US-ASCII 7 bits (127) ?
The specific octet may be printable character or not depending on your charset. For instance, your letters are printable in koi8-r (showing upper Russian I YU T), but not in cp866 (al least recode cp866..koi8-r fails on them).
The "show" function represents your over-127 bytes in portable and readable (by read) way and, I think, it does right.
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