[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Andrew Coppin]

Albert Y. C. Lai wrote:
> Lest I am painted as unhelpful(*), http://www.vex.net/~trebla/u.html 
> exemplifies what can be done and how to do it. In particular, you must 
> always specify a content encoding in the HTML header, and you must 
> always order your editor to write out UTF-8.

When I tell the editor to save UTF-8, it inserts some weird "BOM" 
character at the start of the file - and thus, any attempt at 
programatically processing that file instantly fails. :-(