2011/4/4 Brandon Moore
The rest of the standard already just talks about sequences of unicode characters, so I don't see much to be gained by prohibiting other encodings.
In particular, I have read that systems set up for east asian scripts often use UTF-16 as a default encoding.
Presumably because this will use less disk space on average. I too don't see any reason to forbid other Unicode encodings. Perhaps mandate support for UTF-8, and allow others with a pragma. But unless someone adds support to a Haskell compiler for such a pragma, it will be fairly pointless putting this in the standard. -- Colin Adams Preston, Lancashire, ENGLAND () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments