Re: [Haskell-cafe] Encoding of Haskell source files

From: Michael Snoyman Sent: Mon, April 4, 2011 5:22:02 AM

Firstly, I personally would love to insist on using UTF-8 and be done with it. I

see no reason to bother with other character encodings.

If by "insist", you mean the standard insist that implementations support UTF-8 by default. 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. Brandon