Re: [Haskell-cafe] Filename encoding error (was: Perform a research a la Unix 'find')

On 22.08.2010 21:23, Yves Parès wrote:

In fact the encoding problem is more general.

When I simply do 'readFile "bar/fooé"', then I'm told: *** Exception: bar/fooé: openFile: does not exist (No such file or directory)

How am I supposed to read files whose names contains non-ASCII characters? (I use GHC 6.12.3 under Ubuntu 10.04 32bits)

Unicode handling in GHC always was a problem. There are corresponding tickets in bug tracker [1,2] You have to manually encode/decode strings to/from UTF8 which obviously works only for UTF8 locales. [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3307 [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3309