patch applied (cabal): First pass at parsing .cabal files as
UTF8
Ross Paterson
ross at soi.city.ac.uk
Sun Feb 24 09:44:56 EST 2008
On Sat, Feb 23, 2008 at 10:49:59AM -0800, Duncan Coutts wrote:
> Sat Feb 23 10:40:25 PST 2008 Duncan Coutts <duncan at haskell.org>
> * First pass at parsing .cabal files as UTF8
> Also print output and error messages etc in UTF8.
On the input side, wouldn't it be better to do this on the boundary,
so that String always means a list of Chars, not octets? That is,
have a readUTFFile that opens the file in binary mode and applies
fromUTF to its contents, yielding a real String.
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