Re: [Haskell-beginners] hGetContents, unicode and linux

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:

   hGetContents: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character) I've done some googling which seems to suggest that I need to set the LANG environment variable, but I already have that set to en_AU.UTF-8.

You can check to see what encoding GHC has picked up from your environment by examining localeEncoding. You can force the encoding to UTF-8 by hSetEncoding stdin utf8 hSetEncoding stdout utf8 All of the above in the context of import System.IO, of course. Regards, Yitz