On Aug 20, 2009, at 05:07 , Ketil Malde wrote:
% ghci -e 'map Data.Char.ord "饁"' <interactive>:1:21: lexical error in string/character literal at character '\129'
but again:
% ghci -e 'map Data.Char.ord "£"' [194,163]
So GHCi used interactively translates input from the terminal's UTF-8, but outputs truncates output to eight bits. Executing a string with -e, it appears to read byte for byte (which I think was the original behavior at some point).
Makes sense; absent utf8-string, System.Environment.getArgs only groks bytes. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH