[Haskell-beginners] Re: Unicode in GHCi

[Brent Yorgey]

On Thu, Nov 13, 2008 at 12:20:32PM +0900, Benjamin L.Russell wrote:
> On Wed, 12 Nov 2008 13:35:12 +0200, "Christos Chryssochoidis"
> <c.chryssochoidis at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> >Thank you for your response!
> >Indeed utf8-string works fine for printing and reading utf8 strings!
> >I would also like to use multibyte characters in GHCi, but as the guys
> >at #Haskell told me yesterday, GHCi 6.10.1 switched from using
> >readline for line edting to the editline lib, and the latter can't
> >handle unicode characters, at least for now. But in GHCi 6.8 and the
> >older versions there shouldn't be any problem with unicode characters
> >in GHCi.
> 
> Incidentally, does anyone know the reason that GHCi 6.10.1 switched
> from using readline to editline?

I think it's because readline uses a GPL license, which technically
means that it can't be bundled with GHC since GHC isn't GPL.  Why this
was suddenly deemed important I'm not sure.

-Brent