Unicode windows console output.

[Krasimir Angelov]

This is evidence for the broken Unicode support in the Windows
terminal and not a problem with GHC. I experienced the same many
times.

2010/11/2 David Sankel <camior at gmail.com>:
>
> On Mon, Nov 1, 2010 at 10:20 PM, David Sankel <camior at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hello all,
>> I'm attempting to output some Unicode on the windows console. I set my
>> windows console code page to utf-8 using "chcp 65001".
>> The program:
>>
>> -- Test.hs
>> main = putStr "λ.x→x"
>>
>> The output of `runghc Test.hs`:
>>
>> λ.x→xxxx
>>
>> From within ghci, typing `main`:
>>
>> λ*** Exception: <stdout>: hPutChar: permission denied (Permission denied)
>>
>> I suspect both of these outputs are evidence of bugs. Might I be doing
>> something wrong? (aside from using windows ;))
>
> I forgot to mention that I'm using Windows XP with ghc 6.12.3.
>
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