[Haskell-cafe] question about GHC and Unicode

[Don Stewart]

zefria:
> On Sun, Apr 27, 2008 at 1:02 PM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> > GHC supports unicode internally, and String and Char are all unicode.
> >
> > To do unicode IO however, you need to use the utf8-string package:
> >
> >    http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/utf8-string
> >
> > Just import and use IO functions from System.IO.UTF8, and that's it!
> 
> crap... I was hoping for a switch or something.
> 
> The program is supposed to be an interpreter that includes unicode IO
> support, and I wanted to use readline or editline or similar for it.
> Is there any library you know of that would have that kind of an
> ability while still using unicode? Between readline and unicode,
> unicode is the more important, but a readline ability would still be
> very nice.

Ian Lynagh wrote a pure haskell readline implementation a while ago,
that would be trivial to change to use System.IO.UTF8.getLine -- or 
you could write your own (basic history/readline editing is fairly
simple).

-- Don