Re: [Haskell-cafe] Unicode strings and runCommand / runProcess

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

John Goerzen writes:

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ghci GHCi, version 6.12.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Prelude> :m System.Process Prelude System.Process> runCommand "echo привет" ?@825B

Are you arguing about IO-specific stuff like this, or for all non-ASCII Strings?

I'm not sure I understand the question. I consider the behavior in System.IO to be well-documented. The behavior in System.Process is not documented at all. As I said, I'm not certain what the proper answer is, but not documenting what happens probably isn't it. Actually, the behavior of openFile when given a String with characters > 0xFF is also completely undocumented. I am not sure what it does with that. It should probably be the same as runCommand, whatever it is. -- John