Hello John, Tuesday, January 10, 2006, 2:08:44 AM, you wrote:
i want to read a file encoded in utf8 and at a later time output portions of it on the console. Is there an easy way to do this in haskell? using the standard i/o functions i can read the file but the output gives me \1071 ... instead of the unicode characters.
JM> Jhc does all of its IO in utf8. CharIO is a drop in replacement for the JM> standard prelude routines which converts everything to and from UTF8 JM> http://repetae.net/john/repos/jhc/CharIO.hs JM> http://repetae.net/john/repos/jhc/UTF8.hs btw, i plan to add this functionality to my Binary/Streams library, basing on your code, John. so it will work something like: unicode_stdout <- openWithEncoding unicode stdout vPutStrLn unicode_stdout "it's a test" i have the question about this issue - i also want to provide autodetection mechanism, which relies on first bytes of text files to set proper encoding. what is the standard rules to encode utf8/utf16 encoding used for text in file in these first bytes? -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:bulatz@HotPOP.com