20 Oct
2009
20 Oct
'09
11:55 a.m.
On 20 Οκτ 2009, at 3:08 μ.μ., Simon Marlow wrote:
It's not to do with Haskeline. The real underlying problem is that our filesystem APIs on Unix interpret FilePath as [Word8] without doing any encoding/decoding; they just strip off all but the low 8 bits of each Char. This is a long-standing problem, and won't be solved properly until we switch to an abstract FilePath type, but that's a big change that will break lots of code.
Lots more good discussion here:
http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3456
If there were a filePathToString function we could use it in GHC to fix the above glitch.
Cheers, Simon
Understood. Thank you very much for the pointer and your response. -- C. Chryssochoidis