16 Feb
2004
16 Feb
'04
11:51 a.m.
Ross Paterson <ross@soi.city.ac.uk> writes:
It shouldn't be too hard to fix this, at least for Latin-1 (full Unicode would be somewhat harder). I'll add it to the TODO list.
While Haskell's source charset is specified as Unicode, Haskell source files don't specify the byte encoding they use, so any source file using non-ASCII characters isn't portable.
Perhaps one could have an option/pragma to specify source encoding?
Entrenching Latin-1 would make the move to Unicode more difficult.
Defaulting to Latin-1 may be sensible, though? -kzm -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants