Re: [Haskell-cafe] question about GHC and Unicode

zefria:

In GHC there's a GHC.Unicode library, but for a string such as " *AIOO", a GHC compiled program prints it as a string of unknown characters, and in the interpreter, the string evaluates to a string of escape sequences instead of displaying properly.

Is there a way to get/activate unicode support in GHC?

GHC supports unicode internally, and String and Char are all unicode. To do unicode IO however, you need to use the utf8-string package: http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/utf8-string Just import and use IO functions from System.IO.UTF8, and that's it! -- Don