[Haskell-cafe] gbp sign showing as unknown character by GHC

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Aug 20, 2009, at 05:07 , Ketil Malde wrote:
>    % ghci -e 'map Data.Char.ord "饁"'
>    <interactive>:1:21:
>        lexical error in string/character literal at character '\129'
>
> but again:
>
>    % ghci -e 'map Data.Char.ord "£"'
>    [194,163]
>
> So GHCi used interactively translates input from the terminal's UTF-8,
> but outputs truncates output to eight bits.  Executing a string with
> -e, it appears to read byte for byte (which I think was the original
> behavior at some point).


Makes sense; absent utf8-string, System.Environment.getArgs only groks  
bytes.

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