Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.7.4

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

wren is half right: at the level of Unixy APIs (and this includes anything that goes on in a Terminal window and anything that you will be doing from Haskell) you use UTF8, but OSX APIs --- that is, Carbon and Cocoa --- use UTF16. So for the purposes of ghc/jhc OSX is UTF8, but if someone wrote a "fully native" Cocoa-based runtime it would use UTF16. (Compare Win32 APIs to mingw APIs; very similar situation.)

Yeah, I've been doing too much Cocoa lately ;) Unfortunately, certain parts of Cocoa aren't UTF16, which is annoying. Standard terminal stuff should all be UTF8 though. -- Live well, ~wren