Haskell IO russian symbols

Question

I an trying to process a file which contains russian symbols. When reading and after writing some text to the file I get something like:

\160\192\231\229\240\225\224\233\228\230\224\237

How can I get normal symbols?

Answer 1

If you are getting strings with backslashes and numbers in, then it sounds like you might be calling "print" when you want to call "putStr".

Answer 2

If you deal with Unicode, you might try utf8-string package

import System.IO hiding (hPutStr, hPutStrLn, hGetLine, hGetContents, putStrLn)
import System.IO.UTF8
import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String (utf8Encode)
main = System.IO.UTF8.putStrLn "Вася Пупкин"

However it didn't work well in my windows CLI garbling the output because of codepage. I expect it to work fine on other Unix-like systems if your locale is set correctly. However writing to file should be successfull on all systems.

UPDATE:

An example on encoding package usage.