Hi Sascha, We got a bug report the other day that someone could not upload a cabal package that had their name containing UTF8 chars. We were wondering if you could look into it. Here's another similar one: http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/hackage/ticket/145 it may well be that the best way to fix this is in Cabal. We could make sure that Cabal returns properly decoded Strings for all the free-form fields. Tell us if you want particular changes in the Cabal library for that. Duncan