[Haskell-cafe] Core packages and locale support

[Bulat Ziganshin]

Hello Felipe,

Saturday, June 26, 2010, 4:54:16 PM, you wrote:

>> > Even if we said "we don't care", we at least should change
>> > FilePath to be [Word8], and not [String].  Currently filepaths

> other OSs worked fine, should I use this API (i.e. type FilePath
> = String) to its fullest extent, my program will suddently become
> unportable to all Unix OSs.

but what you propose cannot be used in Windows at all! while current
FilePath still works on Unix, with manual filenames en/decoding

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 Bulat                            mailto:Bulat.Ziganshin at gmail.com