On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 02:31:29PM +0200, henry atting wrote: > correctly. Then a simple `./hledger' should display my ledger file with > accounts and the according totals -- with the euro currency symbol. > It should look like this: > > €4.50 misc > > But no, the currency symbol is substituted: > > â¬4.50 misc
Looks like hledger is a CLI program. Have you checked your terminal settings? I'm using xterm myself and the quickest way to check that it's enabled for UTF-8 is to hold control and the right mouse button. The menu should have UTF-8 checked for that to display correctly. > In ghci: > > whatareumlauts = "ä, ö and ü" > > *Main> whatareumlauts > "\228, \246 and \252" That triggers the Show instance of String, which escapes anything non-ASCII. Try putStrLn.
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