On 7 April 2011 11:29, Christian Maeder <christian.mae...@dfki.de> wrote: > I agree that Haskell files should be UTF-8, but I also agree that it is only > relevant for Hackage (and Cabal) and already enforced by ghc-6.12. or > higher.
It is relevant for all tools and systems which process Haskell sources. > The motivation for this proposal can only be that future cabal packages will > use more and more non-ASCII characters as is possible via > http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-unicode-symbols-0.2.1.4 and > LANGUAGE pragma "UnicodeSyntax" (that happens to have no support for "\" as > lambda symbol - probably because lambda is a letter and no symbol!) The motivation for this proposal is interoperability of all tools and systems which process Haskell source files. Perhaps I could have made that more clear. > However, I think, these extra characters only make sense for corner cases > and should not be recommended for general purposes. Please take a look at the following file: http://code.haskell.org/numerals/src/Text/Numeral/Language/ZH.hs I have many more like that. I do not consider Chinese a corner case. Nor the vast amount of languages which can not be represented using ASCII. > So my view is: Stick to ASCII and only if you must (not just for casual > reasons) use UTF-8. When to use certain characters is not part of the proposal. _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
