On Sun, Jun 27, 2010 at 02:55:33AM +0300, Roman Beslik wrote:
On 26.06.10 15:44, Felipe Lessa wrote:
However, suppose your program needs to create a file with a name based on a database information. Your database is UTF-8. How do you translate that UTF-8 data into a filepath? This is the problem we got in Haskell. We have a nice coding-agnostic String datatype, but we don't know how to create a file with this very name.
It is simple — you recode from (database | "network server" | file) encoding to the current locale.
Recoding is indeed very simple. You know the source coding (e.g. your database is in UTF-8). But how do you discover the target coding? How can you find out that this system uses ISO8859-1, while this other one uses UTF-16, while...? See the problem now? :) Cheers, -- Felipe.