On Tue, Dec 1, 2009 at 12:59 PM, Konstantin Sobolev wrote:

Hello,

I'm trying out X.A.Search and as I can see it doesn't work with non-latin characters out of the box

Doesn't surprise me at all.

For instance cyrillic text gets converted into some hex-looking mess. The following fixes it for me, but I'm not sure if we can add a dependency on  utf8-string:

We can, since it's already there: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/xmonad-contrib

+ import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String ( utf8Encode ) ... - searchEngine name site = searchEngineF name (\s -> site ++ (escape s)) + searchEngine name site = searchEngineF name (\s -> site ++ (utf8Encode (escape s)))

The problem is that encoding is apparently not a cost-free solution, and we've run into many issues in the past: http://www.google.com/search?q=UTF-8+site:http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/xmonad/&start=10&sa=N

From what I remember of the spawn & prompt discussions, someone said using Encode can mess up still other strings and there's no way to know whether or not to use Encode.

-- gwern