Re: patch applied (cabal): First pass at parsing .cabal files as UTF8

On Sun, Feb 24, 2008 at 05:46:35PM +0000, Duncan Coutts wrote:

So what about hackage? It now has to assume the Strings in the package description etc are proper Haskell Unicode Strings and convert to UFT8 output. Distribution.Simple.Utils exports toUTF8 for this purpose.

XHTML output should be OK: it assumes a charset of iso8859-1 and turns higher chars into HTML entities. text/plain output (used by cabal upload) will need some work, though. I'm not sure what the deal is with charset negotiation.