#9987: GHC refuses to compile a file that starts with a Byte Order Mark (BOM) -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: Henk-Jan | Owner: Type: feature request | Status: new Priority: low | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.1-rc1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: Type of failure: GHC rejects | Unknown/Multiple valid program | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: | Differential Revisions: -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by Henk-Jan): When I remove the BOM by saving the file in ANSI coding (using Notepad), I get the following message from GHC: Camels.hs:152:56: lexical error in string/character literal (UTF-8 decoding error) This is because of an o-umlaut in the comments. The file can be found at: https://raw.githubusercontent.com/wxHaskell/wxHaskell/master/samples/contrib... (Geany states that the file is in CP1252 code and displays it correctly) -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/9987#comment:3 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler