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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">from perl to haskell would be a very
useful piece of documentation, I think. </font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">That explanation really helped me get
to grips with the encoding stuff, in a perl context.</font>
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<br><font size=2 face="sans-serif">thomas.</font>
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<br><font size=1 face="sans-serif">Sent by: haskell-cafe-bounces@haskell.org</font>
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<br><tt><font size=2>On Wed, 2007-11-28 at 17:38 -0200, Maurício wrote:<br>
> >>(...) When it's phrased as "truncates to 8<br>
> >> bits" it sounds so simple, surely all we need<br>
> >> to do is not truncate to 8 bits right?<br>
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> >> The problem is, what encoding should it pick?<br>
> >> UTF8, 16, 32, EBDIC? (...)<br>
> >><br>
> >> One sensible suggestion many people have made<br>
> >> is that H98 file IO should use the locale<br>
> >> encoding and do Unicode/String <-> locale<br>
> >> conversion. (...)<br>
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> I'm really afraid of solutions where the behavior<br>
> of your program changes with an environment<br>
> variable that not everybody has configured<br>
> properly, or even know to exist.<br>
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Be afraid of all your standard Unix utils in that case. They are all<br>
locale dependent, not just for encoding but also for sorting order and<br>
the language of messages.<br>
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Using the locale is standard Unix behaviour (and these days the locale<br>
usually specifies UTF8 encoding). On OSX the default should be UTF8. On<br>
Windows it's a bit less clear, supposedly text files should use UTF16<br>
but nobody actually does that as far as I can see.<br>
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Duncan<br>
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