Christian Maeder wrote:
Simon Marlow wrote:
I'm not sure I see the problem - the I/O library doesn't do unicode encoding/decoding, it always just takes the low 8 bits of each character, hence truncating Unicode to Latin-1. If you restrict yourself to Latin-1 characters in string literals, then I/O will work as expected (i.e. Latin-1 only).
But if ghc-6.5 will expect utf-8 encoded source files all other haskell applications reading or writing haskell files must be adapted as well or am I wrong?
That's true. I guess what you're saying is that this is a problem for you, and your life would be easier if we supported Latin-1 as an encoding for source files again. That's fine - as I mentioned, I only restricted it to UTF-8 initially because (a) it was easier and (b) I wanted to see if anyone would be adversely affected. I've now added a ticket for this: http://cvs.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/690 Thanks for the feedback! Cheers, Simon