On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 02:24:47PM +0100, Sven Panne wrote:
So I propose a compromise, we don't really have to be better than most languages/toolkits out there: Let's keep FilePath = String, but improve the real culprit, i.e. CString and friends. Currently, peekCString{,Len}, newCString{,Len} and withCString{,Len} simply use their "CA" ASCII counterparts. If we put the above common logic into Foreign.C.String, we could already achieve a lot.
I'm not clear on exactly what you're proposing: would getDirectoryContents "." >>= mapM_ removeFile remove all the files in ".", regardless of what my locale is, my OS is, etc? i.e. would this solve my problem in http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2005-July/004189.html ? Thanks Ian