[Haskell-cafe] Has character changed in GHC 6.8?

[Ian Lynagh]

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:59:24PM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
> 
> Yes, of course, stupid me.  But it is still the UTF-8 representation of "ö",
> not Latin-1, and this brings me back to my original question, is this an
> intentional change in 6.8?

Yes (in 6.8.2, to be precise).

It's in the release notes:

http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.8.2/html/users_guide/release-6-8-2.html
GHCi now treats all input as unicode, except for the Windows console
where we do the correct conversion from the current code page.


Thanks
Ian