[GHC] #596: Make GHC accept Unicode source files

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#596: Make GHC accept Unicode source files
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 Reporter:  simonmar  |        Owner:      
     Type:  task      |       Status:  new 
 Priority:  normal    |    Milestone:      
Component:  Compiler  |      Version:  None
 Severity:  normal    |   Resolution:  None
 Keywords:            |  
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Changes (by simonmar):

  * component:  None => Compiler

Old description:

> {{{
> GHC currently only accepts source files in the Latin-1 character set,
> which is a small (8-bit) subset of the full Unicode character set.
>
> GHC should be able to accept fulll Unicode source files, encoded
> appropriately (eg. UTF-8).
>
> See this message for some more information on the problem:
>
> http://haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2003-
> December/006094.html
>
> }}}

New description:

 GHC currently only accepts source files in the Latin-1 character set,
 which is a small (8-bit) subset of the full Unicode character set.

 GHC should be able to accept fulll Unicode source files, encoded
 appropriately (eg. UTF-8).

 See this message for some more information on the problem:

 http://haskell.org/pipermail/glasgow-haskell-users/2003-
 December/006094.html

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