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authorZubin Duggal <zubin.duggal@gmail.com>2021-10-04 16:19:37 +0530
committerMarge Bot <ben+marge-bot@smart-cactus.org>2021-10-05 14:35:52 -0400
commit29ee04f330514651537b0e851a948373a38fa231 (patch)
tree30b38cea7fe9a9bda655321099558681cf171d48 /libraries
parent11240b7427c54c3233aa3cce5adc3a5209df8031 (diff)
downloadhaskell-29ee04f330514651537b0e851a948373a38fa231.tar.gz
docs: Clarify documentation of `getFileSystemEncoding` (#20344)
It may not always be a Unicode encoding
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-rw-r--r--libraries/base/GHC/IO/Encoding.hs4
1 files changed, 3 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/libraries/base/GHC/IO/Encoding.hs b/libraries/base/GHC/IO/Encoding.hs
index 9bad2c6b58..0238f1b348 100644
--- a/libraries/base/GHC/IO/Encoding.hs
+++ b/libraries/base/GHC/IO/Encoding.hs
@@ -109,9 +109,11 @@ utf32be = UTF32.utf32be
getLocaleEncoding :: IO TextEncoding
{-# NOINLINE getLocaleEncoding #-}
--- | The Unicode encoding of the current locale, but allowing arbitrary
+-- | The encoding of the current locale, but allowing arbitrary
-- undecodable bytes to be round-tripped through it.
--
+-- Do not expect the encoding to be Unicode-compatible: it could appear to be ASCII or anything else.
+--
-- This 'TextEncoding' is used to decode and encode command line arguments
-- and environment variables on non-Windows platforms.
--