[Hackage] #692: Hackage should not permit hs files encoded as Latin1

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#692: Hackage should not permit hs files encoded as Latin1
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  Reporter:  ezyang             |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect             |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  low                |    Milestone:         
 Component:  hackageDB website  |      Version:  1.6.0.3
  Severity:  minor              |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown            |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                     |  
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 They seem innocuous (usually hiding in source code comments, lest they
 fail to compile) but they make uniformly loading *.hs files into memory a
 pain, since you have to heuristically determine what encoding a file that
 is not Unicode-enabled is. We should ban them: it's UTF-8 or nothin'.

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