[Haskell-cafe] Encoding of Haskell source files

[Brandon Moore]

>From: Michael Snoyman <michael at snoyman.com>
>Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 5:22:02 AM
>
>Firstly, I personally would love to insist on using UTF-8 and be done with it. I 
>
>see no reason to bother with other character encodings.

If by "insist", you mean the standard insist that implementations support
UTF-8 by default.

The rest of the standard already just talks about sequences of unicode
characters, so I don't see much to be gained by prohibiting other encodings.

In particular, I have read that systems set up for east asian scripts
often use UTF-16 as a default encoding.

Brandon