Re: [Haskell-cafe] Has character changed in GHC 6.8?

On Tue, 22 Jan 2008, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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At the time I thought that the encoding (in my case UTF-8) was “leaking through”. After switching to GHC 6.8 the behaviour seems to have changed, and mapping 'ord' on a string results in a list of ints representing the Unicode code point rather than the encoding:

Yes. GHC 6.8 treats .hs files as UTF-8 where it previously treated them as Latin-1.

Can this be controlled by an option?