use UTF-8 across all platforms

- all inputs are now decoded as UTF-8, regardless of the platform
- decoding failures are now tolerated via transliteration given errant
  characters are generally expected to appear in comments

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -22,6 +22,8 @@
 * Support parameters which use a type-of as the data type
 * Support typed valued parameters declared in parameter port lists without
   explicitly providing a leading `parameter` or `localparam` marker
+* Use UTF-8 on all platforms and tolerate transcoding failures, enabling reading
+  files encoding using Latin-1 with special characters in comments
 
 ## v0.0.8
 

src/Language/SystemVerilog/Parser/Preprocess.hs

@@ -19,9 +19,11 @@ import Control.Monad.State.Strict
 import Data.Char (ord)
 import Data.List (tails, isPrefixOf, findIndex, intercalate)
 import Data.Maybe (isJust, fromJust)
+import GHC.IO.Encoding.Failure (CodingFailureMode(TransliterateCodingFailure))
+import GHC.IO.Encoding.UTF8 (mkUTF8)
 import System.Directory (findFile)
 import System.FilePath (dropFileName)
-import System.IO (hGetContents, openFile, stdin, IOMode(ReadMode))
+import System.IO (hGetContents, hSetEncoding, openFile, stdin, IOMode(ReadMode))
 import qualified Data.Map.Strict as Map
 
 import Language.SystemVerilog.Parser.Tokens (Position(..))
@@ -107,6 +109,7 @@ loadFile path = do
         if path == "-"
             then return stdin
             else openFile path ReadMode
+    hSetEncoding handle $ mkUTF8 TransliterateCodingFailure
     contents <- hGetContents handle
     return $ normalize contents
 

test/lex/latin1.sv

+module top;
+// 
+initial $display("Hi!");
+endmodule