Hallo! On Thu, Dec 18, 2003 at 01:55:27PM +0100, francis.girard@free.fr wrote:
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.
My understanding is that `show' should work with `read' and possibly produce output that can be parsed by the Haskell parser. It is not a pretty printing function.
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 ...
I, too, speak a language that can't be fully expressed in ASCII, but I do not think that the behaviour of `show' should be changed in this respect. Greetings, Carsten -- Carsten Schultz (2:38, 33:47), FB Mathematik, FU Berlin http://carsten.fu-mathe-team.de/ PGP/GPG key on the pgp.net key servers, fingerprint on my home page.