Re: Proposal #3337: expose Unicode and newline translation from System.IO

On Fri, Jul 3, 2009 at 1:23 AM, Simon Marlow wrote:

On 02/07/2009 23:04, Judah Jacobson wrote:

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On Tue, Jun 30, 2009 at 5:03 AM, Simon Marlow  wrote:

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Ticket:

 http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3337

For the proposed new additions, see:

 * http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/base/System-IO.html#23   System.IO (Unicode encoding/decoding)

 * http://www.haskell.org/~simonmar/base/System-IO.html#25   System.IO (Newline conversion)

Discussion period: 2 weeks (14 July).

3) How hard would it be to get Windows code page support working?  I'd like that a lot since it would further simplify the code in Haskeline.  I can help out with the implementation if it's just a question of time.

Ok, so I did look into this.  The problem is that the MultiByteToWideChar API just isn't good enough. [...] BTW, Python uses its own automatically-generated codecs for Windows codepages.  Maybe we should do that too.

That approach seems best; and it would be a nice small step towards a pure Haskell replacement for libiconv. I've started working on this. -Judah