[GHC] #690: Accept source files in encodings other than UTF-8

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#690: Accept source files in encodings other than UTF-8
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  Reporter:  simonmar          |          Owner:         
      Type:  task              |         Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal            |      Milestone:  6.6    
 Component:  Compiler          |        Version:  6.5    
  Severity:  normal            |     Resolution:         
  Keywords:                    |             Os:  Unknown
Difficulty:  Moderate (1 day)  |   Architecture:  Unknown
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Comment (by igloo):

 Duncan Coutts points out that, as a workaround, you can pass

 {{{
 -F -pgmF convert.sh
 }}}

 to GHC, where convert.sh contains

 {{{
 #!/bin/sh
 ( echo "{-# LINE 1 \"$2\" #-}" ; iconv -f l1 -t utf-8 $2 ) > $3
 }}}

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