id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	version	resolution	keywords	cc
66	Document the fact that some console encodings won't work	judah		"Add documentation that encodings such as UTF-16, UTF-32 are not expected to work.   (We need encodings like UTF-8 or Latin-1 which ensure that, for example, {{{'\n'}}} is represented by one byte.)

In retrospect this is not surprising, but it's probably worth mentioning somewhere since it's a decision that was made explicitly.  

(This was done because of ghc's (current) lack of support for Unicode by default.  In theory we could work around it using the low-level Handle API along with iconv's API, but in practice that's probably not worth it.)"	task	closed	minor	0.6.0		fixed