On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
Ketil Malde wrote:
On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 19:15 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote:
While BOMs (Byte Order Mark) are pretty irrelevant to byte-oriented encodings like UTF-8, I think programs that fail on their presence can be considered buggy.
Yay! Haskell's text I/O system is buggy. :-P
Works for me, but feel free to file a bug or provide a more specific report.
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.
anybody has filed a bug report / feature request for this. (Come to think of it, I have no idea how to check either...)