Hi all! Last day I was trying to fix idiii library, because it uses utf8 for parsing non-unicode content. I found the functions

-- | Parses one value and returns it as a 'String' parseString :: CharEncoding -> TagParser String parseString enc = do v <- case enc of 0x01 -> parseUntilWord16Null -- UTF-16 0x02 -> parseUntilWord16Null -- UTF-16 BOM _ -> parseUntilWord8Null -- ISO-8859-1 or UTF-8 return $ encPack enc v

encPack :: CharEncoding -> [Token] -> String encPack 0x00 s = Text.unpack $ decodeASCII $ BS.pack s encPack 0x01 (0xFF:0xFE:s) = Text.unpack $ decodeUtf16LE $ BS.pack s encPack 0x01 (0xFE:0xFF:s) = Text.unpack $ decodeUtf16BE $ BS.pack s encPack 0x02 s = Text.unpack $ decodeUtf16BE $ BS.pack s encPack _ s = Text.unpack $ decodeUtf8 $ BS.pack s

updated the dependency from

import Data.Text.Encoding (decodeASCII, decodeUtf16LE, decodeUtf16BE, decodeUtf8) to import Data.Text.ICU.Convert

and added implementation for decoding functions:

decodeAny :: String -> BS.ByteString -> Text.Text decodeAny charset src = unsafePerformIO $ ((flip toUnicode) src) `fmap` open charset (Just True)

decodeASCII :: BS.ByteString -> Text.Text decodeASCII = decodeAny "latin1"

decodeUtf16LE = decodeAny "utf-16le"

decodeUtf16BE = decodeAny "utf-16be"

decodeUtf8 = decodeAny "utf-8"

Now I want to add possibility to specify encoding to yse with decodeASCII. I was thinking of adding Reader monad and providing some sort of charset configuration there - but it will lead up to complicating the code, which uses this parseString function. And this code is used inside Parser of Text.ParserCombinators.Poly.State - so I will need to update all usages of this parser. Another approach might be to use IORef with encoding stored there, but I don't really like this solution. What would be the best way of refactoring of such kind? Thanks! -- Eugene N Dzhurinsky