Am Samstag 24 Oktober 2009 22:27:39 schrieb Philippos Apolinarius: > I have a friend who is an architect. I asked her why she does not use > Haskell, since she is fond of functional programming. She writes her > scripts in Clean, and needs to compile them before using them to generate > postscript diagrams. In Haskell, I told her, she could use runghc, and skip > the compilation step. She told me that she would consider switching to > Haskell, and skipping the compilation step, if I could tell her how to > write "façade" in Haskell. > > C:\ghc\hastex>runghc tudin.hs > > tudin.hs:10:19: > lexical error in string/character literal (UTF-8 decoding error) > > After browsing the Internet, I noticed that a many of people are having the > same problem. Could someone tell me what is wrong with my friend's > program? > > import System.IO
import qualified System.IO.UTF8 as U > > main= do > outh <- openFile "garb.tsm" WriteMode U.hPutStrLn outh "A façade is the exterior of a building" > hClose outh > > I would appreciate a "normal" solution, that is, I would like to type the > text in any editor, or generate it with LaTeX macros, and compile it using > ghc. works here _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
