2011/4/7 Christian Maeder <Christian.Maeder@dfki.de>

Am 07.04.2011 11:29, schrieb Christian Maeder:

So my view is: Stick to ASCII and only if you must (not just for casual
reasons) use UTF-8.

This means all comments in haskell sources (for hackage) should be in English, exclusively! Supply separate documentation in your mother tongue if required.

This thread being about the encoding of haskell source files, not hackage's, I don't see the point in talking about restricting hackage's langage to English.

- it is not the topic

- it's already a de-facto standard anyways.

On the other hand, not restricting the usage of any langage in haskell source files is IMHO a must, and it's not well supported as it is; for example haddock does't support accentuated letters in comments.

This proposal gives a clear signal that utf8 characters have to be taken into account, and hopefully tools like haddock will evolve to support them thanks to this proposal.