On Sat, Sep 24, 2011 at 1:10 AM, csmagic
It seems to be happening elsewhere also: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/856
Also its more likely a locale issue than a terminal one because I get the same error when I replace the pipe with a redirection to a file.
And yet my locales dont seem to be odd in any way (I can see)
$ locale LANG=en_US LANGUAGE= LC_CTYPE="en_US" LC_NUMERIC="en_US" LC_TIME="en_US" LC_COLLATE="en_US" LC_MONETARY="en_US" LC_MESSAGES="en_US" LC_PAPER="en_US" LC_NAME="en_US" LC_ADDRESS="en_US" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US" LC_ALL=
I would expect a unicode locale to look something like this: http://www.madboa.com/geek/utf8/ So I'm guessing something is not set-up right for unicode output, and at least one of the Cabal package descriptions includes unicode output.
$ locale -a C C.UTF-8 en_US en_US.iso88591 en_US.iso885915 en_US.utf8 POSIX
$ cabal --version cabal-install version 0.10.2 using version 1.10.1.0 of the Cabal library
[I just did a cabal update cabal. Did not do anything as far as I can see]
$ uname -rv 2.6.32-5-686 #1 SMP Tue Mar 8 21:36:00 UTC 2011
$ cat /etc/debian_version wheezy/sid
On a related note I find a lot of libghc6-something-or-other which are all described as dummy packages.
Is Debian not the best system to play around with Haskell? I gather gentoo is where the most haskell development happens...
I used to do Haskell development on Ubuntu - I would install the base libraries from apt, and then use 'cabal' user installs to do the rest. These days I work on a Mac, where I start with the Haskell Platform installer.
There's an active Debian+Haskell group; I don't know much about gentoo (maybe they don't advertise as much).
Sorry I couldn't be of much help with the odd error.
Antoine
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