Hello Roman, Sunday, June 27, 2010, 11:37:24 AM, you wrote:
No! The target encoding is the current locale. It is a no-brainer to not necessarily. current locale, encoding of current terminal and encoding of every filesystem mounted are all different things And we should stick to the current locale. Problem solved. "6.3 CString The module CString provides routines marshalling Haskell into C strings and vice versa. The marshalling converts each Haskell character, representing a Unicode code point, to one or more bytes in a manner that, by default, is determined by the *current locale*." "The Haskell 98 Foreign Function Interface."
1. it doesn't work on practice. ghc provides simple 8-bit conversion and i think a lot of code relies on this behavior 2. when you mount external/network volume, it doesn't necessarily has the same encoding as your current locale -- Best regards, Bulat mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin@gmail.com