27 Feb
2008
27 Feb
'08
6:22 a.m.
Duncan Coutts
Let me try and summarise:
basically we can be consistent with the OS environment or consistent with other Haskell systems in other environments or try to get some mixture of the two. It is pretty clear however that trying to get a mixture still leads to some inconsistency with the OS environment.
I would vote for "always locale". If one starts up an editor, types some text and saves it, it is probably in the locale's encoding. A user will be surprised if a Haskell program fails to read the resulting file. Also, being consistent with C and Java means both users and developers are likely to be familiar with the behavior. Regards, Takano Akio