#10623: Handling of ASCII encodings introduced in D898 breaks Unicode terminal detection -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: high | Milestone: 7.10.2 Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2-rc2 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Unknown/Multiple | Architecture: | Unknown/Multiple Type of failure: None/Unknown | Test Case: T8958a Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #10298, #7695 | Differential Revisions: | Phab:D1059, Phab:D1085 -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Changes (by rwbarton): * status: closed => new * priority: normal => high * differential: Phab:1059 => Phab:D1059, Phab:D1085 * resolution: fixed => * milestone: => 7.10.2 Comment: I realized that at least hsyl20 and perhaps others actually intend to run their programs in the (what I would consider to be broken) setting of a chroot without a working iconv installation. In that case we really shouldn't use `char8` when asked for an ASCII locale. If the programmer wants `char8` they can use it explicitly. I implemented an ASCII encoding in Phab:D1085. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10623#comment:5 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler