[Haskell-cafe] Re: [Haskell] ANNOUNCE: jhc 0.7.4

[Richard O'Keefe]

On Jul 11, 2010, at 9:38 AM, wren ng thornton wrote:
> Generally OSX takes UTF16 to be the standard encoding (I don't  
> recall if it's LE or BE), though UTF8 is supported almost  
> everywhere. I haven't checked to see whether that would affect this  
> particular task though.

Mac OS X 10.5 came with a lot of locales, including a lot of
UTF-8 ones.  Indeed, the default was a UTF-8 one.
But it didn't come with *any* UTF-16 locales.
(As tested by 'locale -a'.)