David Roundy
No, it's not Unix-specific, it's portable. If you want to write portable C code, you have to use the standard library, which means that file names are represented as Ptr CChar.
I disagree. We are talking about portable Haskell, not portable C. The native Windows filename encoding (in WinNT) is UTF-16 (without validation that surrogates are correctly paired). It provides API which works with such filenames. It also provides a compatibility layer on top of that, which tries to translate filenames to some 8-bit encoding, but it should only be used when porting C programs which can't be adapted to use Windows filenames through their native type. Especially as Haskell already uses Unicode - it's pointless to convert it to an 8-bit encoding and back. I don't know what these 8-bit WinAPI functions do when they encounter filenames unrepresentable in the current 8-bit encoding. -- __("< Marcin Kowalczyk \__/ qrczak@knm.org.pl ^^ http://qrnik.knm.org.pl/~qrczak/