[Pkg-haskell-maintainers] Bug#748125: System.Posix.Directory.readDirStream can return strings that S.P.Files.getFileStatus cannot use

[Joachim Breitner]

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Dear Robert,

Thanks for your report.

Am Mittwoch, den 14.05.2014, 17:00 +0200 schrieb Robert Bihlmeyer:
> I don't think running a program with LC_CTYPE=*.UTF-8 means that all
> filenames that it encounters have to be valid UTF-8.

the problem is: What else should they be? The "String" type represents
unicode characters, so using that for a file name requires them to be
decoded somehow.

I guess the solution, which you have found already, for uses where
arbitrary filenames need to work is to use a type that is meant for
that, i.e. ByteString.

So I’m not sure what to do about this bug.

Greetings,
Joachim

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