On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 08:52, Manfred Lotz <manfred.lotz@arcor.de> wrote:

Then I discovered System.IO.UTF8. However, when I use this as below
then the output is garbled.

System.IO.UTF8 is intended for earlier versions of ghc which didn't support I/O encoding; if you use it with modern ghc you're likely to get things encoded twice, which will indeed be garbled.

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