4 Apr
2011
4 Apr
'11
11:05 a.m.
+1 for UTF-8 only. Brandon Moore wrote:
...I don't see much to be gained by prohibiting other encodings.
Universal portability of Haskell source code with respect to its encoding is to be gained. We can achieve that simplicity now with almost no cost. Why miss the opportunity?
In particular, I have read that systems set up for east asian scripts often use UTF-16 as a default encoding.
Default encoding is not an issue for any normal source code editing tool. Thanks, Yitz