[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Andrew Coppin]

Ketil Malde wrote:
> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 19:15 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
>
>   
>>> While BOMs (Byte Order Mark) are pretty irrelevant to byte-oriented
>>> encodings like UTF-8, I think programs that fail on their presence can
>>> be considered buggy.
>>>       
>
>   
>> Yay! Haskell's text I/O system is buggy. :-P
>>     
>
> Works for me, but feel free to file a bug or provide a more specific
> report.
>   

I was actually commenting on the other guy's remark that "anything that 
chokes on a BOM can be considered buggy" - not entirely seriously. ;-)

If there is a "bug" to be reported, it is merely that [the GHC 
implementation of] Haskell appears to interpret files as containing 
"8-bit ASCII", rather than doing real character encodings. I have no 
idea whether anybody has filed a bug report / feature request for this. 
(Come to think of it, I have no idea how to check either...)