7 Apr
2011
7 Apr
'11
9:25 a.m.
On 7 April 2011 15:03, Christian Maeder
The code would not suffer much if it were pure ASCII. I would prefer (ascii) haddock links to explain the various code points.
The code in question contains Chinese characters like 'δΈ‰', which in a US-ASCII encoded Haskell file must be written as '\x4e09'. I do not consider these escape sequences an acceptable substitute. But this discussion is tangential to the proposal. I am interested in having a common set of guidelines to ensure interoperability of Haskell sources. An important part of that is having a common method of decoding files containing Haskell code. The easiest way to achieve that is using only 1 encoding. UTF-8 is the best candidate for that role.