On Tue, Nov 1, 2011 at 5:16 AM, Ganesh Sittampalam
I'm just investigating what we can do about a problem with darcs' handling of non-ASCII filenames on GHC 7.2.
The issue is apparently that as of GHC 7.2, getDirectoryContents now tries to decode filenames in the current locale, rather than converting a stream of bytes into characters: http://bugs.darcs.net/issue2095
I found an old thread on the subject: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2009-June/062795.html and some GHC tickets (e.g. http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3300)
Can anyone point me at the rationale and details of the change and/or suggest workarounds?
You could try using system-fileio [1], but by reading its source code I guess that it may have the same bug (since it tries to decode what the directory package gives). I'm CCing John Millikin, its maintainer. Cheers, [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/system-fileio/0.3.2.1/doc/html/F... -- Felipe.