On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:59:24PM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:
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> Yes, of course, stupid me. But it is still the UTF-8 representation of "รถ",
> not Latin-1, and this brings me back to my original question, is this an
> intentional change in 6.8?
Yes (in 6.8.2, to be precise).
It's in the release notes:
http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/6.8.2/html/users_guide/release-6-8-2.html
GHCi now treats all input as unicode, except for the Windows console
where we do the correct conversion from the current code page.
Excellent news. One step closer to sanity when it comes to character encodings on the command line :-)
/M