+
+-- ----------------------------------------------------------------------------
+-- 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.
+ --
+ -- 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()).
+ --
+ setConsoleCP 28591 -- ISO Latin-1
+ setConsoleOutputCP 28591 -- ISO Latin-1
+#endif
+ return ()