On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Philippos Apolinarius
In a private email to Ketil Malde, I said that Ocaml programmers use the preprocessor to solve the problem of character encoding:
ocamlopt -pp myfilter.exe myprogram.ml -o myoutput.exe
I wonder whether a similar solution could be used with Haskell. I am new to Haskell, but I suppose that Haskell may accept something like
ghc -pgmF myfilter.exe myprogram.hs --make
If the answer is yes, what should I substitute for myfilter.exe?
Converting a non-utf-8 input file to utf-8? There's no obvious reason it shouldn't work, and you could use recode for the filter. However, wouldn't it be much better to just generate utf-8 in the first place? I find it hard to believe that it's really as hard as all that. -- Svein Ove Aas