Quick question: I've tested this in a couple of different terminals (roxterm and xterm), so I'm fairly sure it's GHC that's the problem. Have I missed a setting?
GHCi, version 6.10.4
Prelude> putStrLn "£"
�
Hugs98 200609-3
Hugs> putStrLn "£"
£
I get the same character output from a password generator I've writtern, after compilation with GHC