On 16/12/10 20:53, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:
Hello,
on
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.12.2/html/libraries/base-4.2.0.1/System-IO...
it says:
An attempt to write a character greater than '\255' to a Handle using the latin1 encoding will result in an error.
However, according to my experience (with GHC 6.12.1 and base 4.2.0.0), latin1 just outputs a character '\cccc' as cccc `mod` 256.
It seems to be working as advertised for me: $ ghc-6.12.1 --interactive GHCi, version 6.12.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ :? for help Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done. Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done. Loading package base ... linking ... done. Loading package ffi-1.0 ... linking ... done. Prelude> import System.IO Prelude System.IO> hSetEncoding stdout latin1 Prelude System.IO> putChar '\256' *** Exception: <stdout>: hPutChar: invalid argument (character is out of range for this encoding) Prelude System.IO> I get the same results with 7.0.1. Can you tell me how to reproduce the problem you're seeing? Cheers, Simon