[Hackage] #533: Cabal file in UTF-8 format can not be handled by Cabal
#533: Cabal file in UTF-8 format can not be handled by Cabal ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.2 Severity: normal | Keywords: UTF-8 Difficulty: unknown | Ghcversion: 6.10.1 Platform: Windows | ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- According to http://www.haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/Cabal/authors.html , a .cabal file should be a Unicode UTF-8 text file; when I change the file to UTF-8 with notepad, Cabal can not handle it:
runhaskell Setup configure Setup: xyz.cabal:1: unrecognised field or section: "\65279Name: xyz"
Changing this file back to ANSI solves the problem. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/533 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#533: Cabal file in UTF-8 format can not be handled by Cabal ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.2 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: UTF-8 | Difficulty: unknown Ghcversion: 6.10.1 | Platform: Windows ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Comment (by ross): '\65279' = '\xFEFF' = ZERO WIDTH NO-BREAK SPACE = BYTE ORDER MARK, so it seems notepad inserts a UTF-encoded BOM at the start of the file. Cabal needs to ignore BOMs. (They're classified as format characters, not spaces, in Unicode.) -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/533#comment:1 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#533: Cabal file in UTF-8 format can not be handled by Cabal ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Reporter: guest | Owner: Type: defect | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.2 Severity: normal | Resolution: Keywords: UTF-8 | Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour) Ghcversion: 6.10.1 | Platform: Windows ----------------------------+----------------------------------------------- Changes (by duncan): * difficulty: unknown => very easy (<1 hour) Comment: Should be easy to drop a BOM at the beginning of the input. -- Ticket URL: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/533#comment:2 Hackage http://haskell.org/cabal/ Hackage: Cabal and related projects
#533: Cabal file in UTF-8 format can not be handled by Cabal
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Reporter: guest | Owner:
Type: defect | Status: closed
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: Cabal library | Version: 1.6.0.2
Severity: normal | Resolution: fixed
Keywords: UTF-8 | Difficulty: very easy (<1 hour)
Ghcversion: 6.10.1 | Platform: Windows
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Changes (by duncan):
* status: new => closed
* resolution: => fixed
Comment:
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Sun May 31 23:50:08 BST 2009 Duncan Coutts
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