#692: Hackage should not permit hs files encoded as Latin1
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Reporter: ezyang | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: new
Priority: low | Milestone:
Component: hackageDB website | Version: 1.6.0.3
Severity: minor | Keywords:
Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion:
Platform: |
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They seem innocuous (usually hiding in source code comments, lest they
fail to compile) but they make uniformly loading *.hs files into memory a
pain, since you have to heuristically determine what encoding a file that
is not Unicode-enabled is. We should ban them: it's UTF-8 or nothin'.
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/692>
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