[GHC] #1744: treat byte order mark as zero-width whitespace

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#1744: treat byte order mark as zero-width whitespace
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 Reporter:  igloo              |          Owner:             
     Type:  feature request    |         Status:  new        
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:  6.10 branch
Component:  Compiler (Parser)  |        Version:  6.8        
 Severity:  normal             |     Resolution:             
 Keywords:                     |     Difficulty:  Unknown    
 Testcase:                     |   Architecture:  Unknown    
       Os:  Unknown            |  
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Comment (by Porges):

 Can I vote for this also? Some editors insist upon inserting the BOM when
 working with UTF-8 source, and this bug is ''highly'' annoying.

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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/1744#comment:3>
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