UTF-8 decoding

[Simon Marlow]

Christian Maeder wrote:
> Simon Marlow wrote:
> 
>> I'm not sure I see the problem - the I/O library doesn't do unicode 
>> encoding/decoding, it always just takes the low 8 bits of each 
>> character, hence truncating Unicode to Latin-1.  If you restrict 
>> yourself to Latin-1 characters in string literals, then I/O will work 
>> as expected (i.e. Latin-1 only).
> 
> 
> But if ghc-6.5 will expect utf-8 encoded source files all other haskell 
> applications reading or writing haskell files must be adapted as well or 
> am I wrong?

That's true.  I guess what you're saying is that this is a problem for 
you, and your life would be easier if we supported Latin-1 as an 
encoding for source files again.  That's fine - as I mentioned, I only 
restricted it to UTF-8 initially because (a) it was easier and (b) I 
wanted to see if anyone would be adversely affected.

I've now added a ticket for this: http://cvs.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/690

Thanks for the feedback!

Cheers,
	Simon