Hi, as some of you may know, I'm working on an update of OpenBSDs ghc port to 6.12.2, currently chasing down the last remaining testsuite failures. Yesterday, I ran into a problem which I have a fix for, but only a really ugly fix, and I need some opinions of what users would prefer. The problem is that Haskell uses unicode characters internally (ghc itself uses UTF-32 internally, where the endianess depends on the architecture it's running on), and that any Haskell program (including ghc and ghci) has to convert between the internal representation and the actual locale settings of the system it's running on. Unfortunately, OpenBSD is really bad if it comes to locale support; the only supported locales are the C and the POSIX locales, so even if you set LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE to something like, for example, de_DE.iso88591, this would have no effect on OpenBSD. Anyway, the short story is that I have to either hard-code the character set to something like utf-8, or ghc will start to behave really strange (for example, ghci would terminate immediately if you just *type* a non-ASCII character). So what would you prefer? - Use utf-8 and only utf-8 (i.e. hardcoded)? - Use something like iso-8859-15 (hardcoded)? - Make it configurable via some non-standard environment variable (GHC_CODESET, for example). If so, what should be the default if the environment variable isn't set? Back to 7 bit (ASCII)? utf-8? Some of the latin variants? Your suggestions are appreciated. Thanks in advance. Ciao, Kili