Re: Proposal: Define UTF-8 to be the encoding of Haskell source files

On Thu, 2011-04-07 at 09:07 +0200, Roel van Dijk wrote:

On 6 April 2011 15:13, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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So since the goal is interoperability of source files then perhaps we should also have a section somewhere with interoperability guidelines for implementations that do store Haskell programs as OS files.

I think a set of interoperability guidelines is a great idea. It seems these guidelines are already followed by GHC, Cabal, Hackage, Jhc and possibly others.

Shall we consider this the proposal instead of just the encoding part?

I would be happy to work with you and others to develop the report text for such a proposal. I posted my first draft already :-) Duncan