Stefan O'Rear wrote:
On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
I was actually commenting on the other guy's remark that "anything that chokes on a BOM can be considered buggy" - not entirely seriously. ;-)
If there is a "bug" to be reported, it is merely that [the GHC implementation of] Haskell appears to interpret files as containing "8-bit ASCII", rather than doing real character encodings. I have no idea whether
There is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII - base assumes files contain ISO-8859-1.
Indeed - ASCII is actually a 7-bit standard. But all known systems use 8 bits/character, and use the extra bit in various random ways. Everybody seems to *call* this "8-bit ASCII", despite that being a rather silly name. I have no idea what "ISO-8859-1" is. (But let's not start another thread about that...)
anybody has filed a bug report / feature request for this. (Come to think of it, I have no idea how to check either...)
Ah... OK.