On 4 April 2011 11:34, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@googlemail.com> wrote: > If there's only a single encoding recognised, UTF-8 surely should be the > one (though perhaps Windows users might disagree, iirc, Windows uses UCS2 > as standard encoding).
Windows APIs use UTF-16, but the encoding of files (which is the relevant point here) is almost uniformly UTF-8 - though of course you can find legacy apps making other choices. Cheers, Max _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe