On 20.04 17:38, Bulat Ziganshin wrote:
one can find example of library that uses iconv in the "System\IO\Text.hs" module from http://haskell.org/~simonmar/new-io.tar.gz and example of hand-made encoder in module "Data\CharEncoding.hs" and its usage - in "System\Stream\Transformer\CharEncoding.hs" from http://freearc.narod.ru/Streams.tar.gz
Does Data.CharEncoding work with encodings that have state associated with them? One example is ISO-2022-JP. Maybe with using a suitable monad transformer?
2) Einar once asked me about changing the encoding on the fly, that is needed for some HTML processing. it is also possible that some program will need to intersperse text I/O with buffer/array/byte/bits I/O. it's a sort of things that are absolutely impossible with iconv
The example goes like this: 1) HTTP client reads response from server using ascii 2) When reading headers is complete, either: * decode body (binary data) and after decompressing convert to text * decode body (text in some encoding) straight from the Handle. Is there a reason this is impossible with iconv if the character conversion is on top of the buffering? - Einar Karttunen