Proposal: Define UTF-8 to be the encoding of Haskell source files

[Roel van Dijk]

On 6 April 2011 15:13, Duncan Coutts <duncan.coutts at googlemail.com> wrote:
> So since the goal is interoperability of source files then perhaps we
> should also have a section somewhere with interoperability guidelines
> for implementations that do store Haskell programs as OS files.

I think a set of interoperability guidelines is a great idea. It seems
these guidelines are already followed by GHC, Cabal, Hackage, Jhc and
possibly others.

Shall we consider this the proposal instead of just the encoding part?