On 31/07/06, Olof Bjarnason
1) reading UTF-8 coded text files into unicode-enabled Strings, lets call them UString 2) writing UStrings to UTF-8 coded text files 3) using unicode strings in-code, that is in my .hs files
In case of GHC: String (Char actually) is unicode enabled. The current stable version cannot read UTF-8 encoded source files though (I've written a converter to workaround it - it escapes the national characters). The development version however is capable of reading UTF-8 encoded source files and does encode read strings using unicode. However - the IO is not aware of Unicode. So in order to do 1) and 2) you have to - read/write stream of bytes encoding text in UTF-8 from/to a file - convert it to/from Unicode encoding. The first one is just about reading/writing using normal IO operations. The second can be done with the following module: http://repetae.net/john/repos/jhc/UTF8.hs Note also that the same procedure would apply to simply printing/reading to/from the screen. Does that help? Regards, Piotr Kalinowski -- Intelligence is like a river: the deeper it is, the less noise it makes