[GHC] #690: Accept source files in encodings other than UTF-8

#690: Accept source files in encodings other than UTF-8
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    Reporter:  simonmar  |        Owner:                  
        Type:  task      |       Status:  new             
    Priority:  normal    |    Milestone:  6.6             
   Component:  Compiler  |      Version:  6.5             
    Severity:  normal    |     Keywords:                  
          Os:  Unknown   |   Difficulty:  Moderate (1 day)
Architecture:  Unknown   |  
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We need to support at least Latin-1, for backwards compatibility.

 One possibility is to run iconv as a preprocessor.  Alternatively, call
 iconv directly from the compiler.  What about Windows?  Should there be a
 pragma specifying encoding, or take it from the locale, or a command-line
 flag, or all three?

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Ticket URL: <http://cvs.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/690>
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