Re: UTF8 libraries

On Sat, Feb 03, 2007 at 12:40:14AM +0900, shelarcy wrote:

Hi Alistar,

On Fri, 02 Feb 2007 21:01:04 +0900, Alistair Bayley wrote:

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What is the state of UTF8 support in Haskell libraries (base or user-contributed)? I had a need for a UTF8 en & de-coder for Takusen, and after looking around couldn't find anything particularly satisfactory, so ended up writing (yet another) one.

regex-posix doesn't support UTF8. Because regex-posix uses POSIX regex. So this problem can't fixed by only correct UTF8 en & de-coder.

actually, conforming POSIX regular expressions work in the character encoding of the current locale, which is very likely utf8. In fact, personally, I would consider any system where it is still not utf8 (or perhaps ascii, which is compatable) at this day and age to be broken. (not that they don't exist) John -- John Meacham - ⑆repetae.net⑆john⑈