[GHC] #11096: Builtin encoder/decoder should be used for Latin-1

15 Nov 2015

      #11096: Builtin encoder/decoder should be used for Latin-1
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           Reporter:  bgamari        |             Owner:  hvr
               Type:  feature        |            Status:  new
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           Priority:  normal         |         Milestone:  8.0.1
          Component:  Compiler       |           Version:  7.10.2
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 Filed on behalf of hvr.

 Currently `mkTextEncoding'` delegates decoding/encoding from/to latin-1 to
 `iconv`. This shouldn't be necessary as we have latin-1 an encoder in
 `base`. Let's use it.

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Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/11096
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