Re: [Haskell-cafe] File name encodings

Oh, perhaps you want to 'decode' the string that dirOpenDialog returns. redcom:

Hi Don,

must be doing something wrong.

The messed up string originates from calling Graphics.UI.WX.dirOpenDialog and selecting a directory with Umlauts.

The encode function doesn't seem to help here as it's too far at the end of the chain.

Günther

Am 10.12.2008, 02:45 Uhr, schrieb Don Stewart :

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redcom:

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Hi,

how can I convert a file name with for example umlauts (ü, ä ... ) into UTF8, or some other format that I can actually use it?

Günther

Using the utf8-string package to encode the file name string.

e.g.

x <- readFile (encode "ኃይሌ ገብረሥላሴ")

http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/utf8-string