#10623: Handling of ASCII encodings introduced in D898 breaks Unicode terminal detection -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: bgamari | Owner: Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: Compiler | Version: 7.10.2-rc2 Keywords: | Operating System: Unknown/Multiple Architecture: | Type of failure: None/Unknown Unknown/Multiple | Blocked By: Test Case: T8958a | Related Tickets: #10298, #7695 Blocking: | Differential Revisions: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Phab:D898 was primarily intended to fix hangs in the event that `iconv` was unavailable (namely #10298 and #7695). In addition to this fix, it also introduced self-contained handling of ANSI terminals to allow compiled executables to run in minimal environments lacking iconv. However, the behavior that the patch introduced is highly suspicious. Specifically, it gives the user a UTF-8 encoding even if they requested ASCII. -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/10623 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler