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## Some things we could do ## Some things we could do
- Allow Unicode, with detection for the two common encodings (UTF-8 and UTF-16). See [SourceEncodingDetection](source-encoding-detection) for a proposal.
- Revert to US-ASCII, Latin-1 or implementation-defined character sets. - Revert to US-ASCII, Latin-1 or implementation-defined character sets.
- Allow Unicode with the encoding specified outside source files (e.g. by the current locale, as currently done by Hugs). This would make Haskell source containing non-ASCII characters non-portable. - Allow Unicode with the encoding specified outside source files (e.g. by the current locale, as currently done by Hugs). This would make Haskell source containing non-ASCII characters non-portable.
- Allow Unicode, with a mechanism for specifying encoding in the source file, e.g. - Allow Unicode, with a mechanism for specifying encoding in the source file, e.g.
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