[GHC] #1286: GHC doesn't accept ISO-8859-1

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#1286: GHC doesn't accept ISO-8859-1
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    Reporter:  Regidor   |       Owner:                            
        Type:  bug       |      Status:  new                       
    Priority:  normal    |   Milestone:                            
   Component:  Compiler  |     Version:  6.6                       
    Severity:  major     |    Keywords:  ISO-8859-1 unicode Latin-1
  Difficulty:  Unknown   |    Testcase:                            
Architecture:  x86       |          Os:  Linux                     
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According to

 http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/users_guide/bugs-and-
 infelicities.html#vs-Haskell-defn

 GHC only accepts ISO-8859-1, but, when I try to compile this source file
 in ISO-8859-1:


 {{{
 module Main where
 main :: IO ()
 main = do putStrLn "año"
 }}}


 I obtain:


 {{{
 main.hs:3:21:
     lexical error in string/character literal (UTF-8 decoding error)
 }}}


 And, if I save the source as UTF-8 it does compile, but, when running the
 program, it prints "a".

 Regards,

 Antonio Regidor García

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1286>
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