Re: darcs patch: Add UTF8 converting and outputing functions

Jun Mukai wrote:

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Why is all this GHC-only?

I agree with you. There are no needs to be GHC-only.

However, my code imports GHC.List and GHC.Word (not Data.List and Data.Word because they import Data.Char). These requirements are implementation dependent.

But what do you use from GHC.List and GHC.Word that are not available in Data.List or Data.Word? At a glance, I could not see anything special.

And also, the problem of UTF-8 encoding is currently GHC specific,

Not entirely. Other compilers may or may not yet read source files in a specific encoding, but the general haskell programmer is certainly going to want to do so, for arbitrary text. Regards, Malcolm