The goal is that more complicated situations are reflected in more complicated "ghc" or "main" invocations. The least complicated usage defaults to being identical cross-platform and regardless of terminal I/O.
I think the best default would be UTF8 for all text handles. This can be easily documented, it can be easily understood, and will produce the fewest suprises. (...) ** Unless influenced by command-line switches, these default to UTF8. I think that making the behavior of programs change, depending on compiler options, will produce a lot of surprises. I think that being only able to set the default encoding from within the program is a better idea, because it keeps the specification of the behavior of
Op 26-feb-2008, om 18:42 heeft Chris Kuklewicz het volgende geschreven: the program inside the source. Reinier