[darcs-users] darcs patch: Re-encode the input from Haskeline as UTF8.

Trent W. Buck trentbuck at gmail.com
Sun Dec 28 12:05:30 UTC 2008


Eric Kow <kowey at darcs.net> writes:

>>> Also, what if the user is not using UTF-8 (ugh!) in their terminal?
>>
>> Haskeline currently can't handle encodings besides ASCII or UTF-8 on
>> POSIX systems.  (I'm hoping to fix that soon.)  How serious of a
>> concern is this?
>
> I'm not sure.  It may be worth asking our European friends, who still
> encounter computers that use ISO-8859-1 and other such encodings

My (ancedotal) impression is that the slowest adoption of Unicode and
UTF-8 is in East Asia, rather than Europe (cf. Han unification).



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