UTF-8 decoding error

[Duncan Coutts]

On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 10:15 +0200, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Duncan Coutts schrieb:
> > 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".
> 
> How about resolving http://cvs.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/690 ?
> 
> I would like to simple add a flag to ghc. How about adding an addional
> phase (and extension) to ghc before preprocessing?
> 
> Your solution does not support good readability. Is there a ready tool
> that converts my source files as you suggested automatically? How does
> haddock handle characters in comments?

There is iconv. It could be used as a pre-processor with ghc's -F -pgmF
-optF flags.

Sorry there isn't a better solution at the moment. You could petition
for an {-# ENCODING ISO-8859-1 #-} pragma as mentioned in that ticket.

Duncan