basvandijk/lifted-base — pull request #3 by pacak (2012-04-10 04:47:36+00:00)
Title: This way it is more readable and usable

When you operate on non-utf8 locale (C or POSIX) ghci will fail to display error messages:

" .... with actual type `IO *** Exception: : hPutChar: invalid argument (invalid character)"