Stuart Cook <scook0@gmail.com> writes:

>     GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
>     Loading package base ... linking ... done.
>     Prelude> map Data.Char.ord "饁"
>     [39233]    <== 0x9941
>     Prelude> putStrLn "饁"
>     A     <== 0x41

> It seems that GHCi is clever enough to decode UTF-8 input, which only
> serves to confuse System.IO even more.

I get:

   GHCi, version 6.8.2: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
   Loading package base ... linking ... done.
   Prelude> map Data.Char.ord "饁"
   [39233]

and

   Prelude> map Data.Char.ord "£"
   [163]

but also:

   % ghci -e 'map Data.Char.ord "饁"'
   <interactive>:1:21:
       lexical error in string/character literal at character '\129'

but again:

   % ghci -e 'map Data.Char.ord "£"'
   [194,163]

So GHCi used interactively translates input from the terminal's UTF-8,
but outputs truncates output to eight bits.  Executing a string with
-e, it appears to read byte for byte (which I think was the original
behavior at some point).

-k
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