--- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
--- Windows console setup
-
-setUpConsole :: IO ()
-setUpConsole = do
-#ifdef mingw32_HOST_OS
- -- On Windows we need to set a known code page, otherwise the characters
- -- we read from the console will be be in some strange encoding, and
- -- similarly for characters we write to the console.
- --
- -- At the moment, GHCi pretends all input is Latin-1. In the
- -- future we should support UTF-8, but for now we set the code
- -- pages to Latin-1. Doing it this way does lead to problems,
- -- however: see bug #1649.
- --
- -- It seems you have to set the font in the console window to
- -- a Unicode font in order for output to work properly,
- -- otherwise non-ASCII characters are mapped wrongly. sigh.
- -- (see MSDN for SetConsoleOutputCP()).
- --
- -- This call has been known to hang on some machines, see bug #1483
- --
- setConsoleCP 28591 -- ISO Latin-1
- setConsoleOutputCP 28591 -- ISO Latin-1
-#endif
- return ()
-