On Mon, 2006-07-31 at 13:56 +0200, Olof Bjarnason wrote:
Hi there!
I'm trying to user Haskell as a code-generating language, specifically generating C# code files. The wish list is
1) reading UTF-8 coded text files into unicode-enabled Strings, lets call them UString
The ordinary Haskell String type is "unicode-enabled".
2) writing UStrings to UTF-8 coded text files 3) using unicode strings in-code, that is in my .hs files
I can live without 3), and with a little good will also 2), but 1) is harder since I cannot really hope my input files (meta-data-files) are coded in anything else than UTF-8.
You can do 1 and 2 now with a little extra code for decoding and encoding UTF8. You will be able to do 3) in GHC 6.6. For 1 & 2, grab some UTF8 code from somewhere: encode, decode :: String -> String and define readFileUTF8 fname = fmap decode (readFile fname) writeFileUTF8 fname content = writeFile fname (encode content) So all internal processing happens as String which is Unicode and you encode and decode when you read/write UTF8 encoded files. Duncan