On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 18:14 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote: > How can I convince ghc version 6.5.20060919 to accept latin1 characters > in literals? > > I wish to keep source files (containing umlauts in strings) that can be > compiled by either ghc-6.4.2 and ghc-6.6. You can use numeric escapes like "\222". Duncan