Arie Peterson wrote:
After upgrading to haskell-platform-2010.1.0.0, with the improved unicode support for IO in ghc-6.12, I hoped to be able to deal with filenames containing non-ascii characters. This still seems problematic, though
Yes, unfortunately. This is not simple to fix, for several reasons: o The impedance mismatch between various operating systems and file systems about how filenames are represented internally w.r.t. Unicode o Haskell 98, which specifies that a FilePath is a String, i.e., Unicode o Backwards compatibility with existing Haskell implementations, which abuse the String type and represent bytes in a file path as if they were Unicode characters Johan Tibell wrote:
This bug might be relevant: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3307
#3307 System.IO and System.Directory functions not Unicode-aware under Unix Related bugs: #3308 getArgs should return Unicode on Windows #3309 getArgs should return Unicode on Unix #4006 System.Process doesn't encode its arguments. See the linked discussions in those bugs for a lot more details, and various ideas about how to proceed. I hope your pinging this issue will bring it closer to being resolved. It's important. Thanks, Yitz