On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 08:05:36PM +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: > Ketil Malde wrote: >> On Thu, 2007-07-12 at 19:15 +0100, Andrew Coppin wrote: >> >> >>>> While BOMs (Byte Order Mark) are pretty irrelevant to byte-oriented >>>> encodings like UTF-8, I think programs that fail on their presence can >>>> be considered buggy. >>>> >> >> >>> Yay! Haskell's text I/O system is buggy. :-P >>> >> >> Works for me, but feel free to file a bug or provide a more specific >> report. >> > > I was actually commenting on the other guy's remark that "anything that > chokes on a BOM can be considered buggy" - not entirely seriously. ;-) > > If there is a "bug" to be reported, it is merely that [the GHC > implementation of] Haskell appears to interpret files as containing "8-bit > ASCII", rather than doing real character encodings. I have no idea whether
There is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII - base assumes files contain ISO-8859-1. > anybody has filed a bug report / feature request for this. (Come to think > of it, I have no idea how to check either...) http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/query Stefan
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