-- 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.
+ -- 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