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 username="http://www.joachim-breitner.de/"
 nickname="nomeata"
 subject="comment 2"
 date="2011-12-24T12:49:40Z"
 content="""
This (rather longish) thread discusses the current situation, the planned changes for 7.2 and the various issues: http://haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2011-November/021115.html

The summary seems to be: From 7.2 on, getDirectoryContents _will_ return proper Strings, i.e. where a Char represents a Unicode code point, and not a Word8, which will fix the problem of outputting them.
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