id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	priority	milestone	component	resolution	keywords	cc
48	Proposal: platform should provide utf8 IO support	dons	dons	"Support for utf8 has been requested. However, no specific package was proposed. Closing this in favour of specific package requests.


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Date: Thu, 14 May 2009 16:23:31 -0700
From: Simon Michael
Subject: add utf8-string in haskell platform

I'd like to request that utf8-string be added to the haskell platform, so that HP users can work with non-ascii text
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== Discussion ==

 * A discussion took place: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/libraries/2009-May/thread.html#11704

"	enhancement	closed	major	2010.2.0.0	Package Addition	wontfix