On Wed, Sep 12, 2007 at 10:53:29AM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
That is expected. The low level filesystem storage doesn't know about character sets, so non-ASCII filenames must be encoded in e.g. UTF-8. 8 characters is therefore correct, and you must do UTF-8 decoding on input because Haskell does not do so automatically.
Ahh, now I eventually get it! So, as far as I understand, I'm getting bytes that are automatically translated into an iso-8859-1 string, if I'm correctly reading this old post by Glynn: http://tinyurl.com/2fhl43 And so it's my job to convert it in what I need. Luckily I've just discovered (and now I'm reading) some of John Meacham's code on locale. This is going to be very helpful (unfortunately I don't see Licenses coming with HsLocale, but if I'm reading correctly there is something like this in Riot - and this was BSD3 released). Thanks for your kind attention. Andrea