#14398: Fail to install haskell platform on Windows -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Reporter: KAAAsS | Owner: (none) Type: bug | Status: new Priority: normal | Milestone: Component: GHCi | Version: 8.2.1 Resolution: | Keywords: Operating System: Windows | Architecture: x86_64 Type of failure: Installing GHC | (amd64) failed | Test Case: Blocked By: | Blocking: Related Tickets: #14168 | Differential Rev(s): Wiki Page: | -------------------------------------+------------------------------------- Comment (by PaladinOfHonour): Replying to [comment:8 Phyx-]:
Thanks! the trace shows nothing really wrong, I think 8.2 has a memory corruption somewhere that's causing invalid characters to manifest in the strings. I'll have to figure out a way to track it down to verify if it's actually fixed or just happens to work in 8.4.
This will be a very late reply to this thread, however, I encountered the exact same internal error issue. I run Windows 10 64-bit with Japanese as the OS language. After troubleshooting, and ruling out the similar #15021 chcp ticket, upgrading from 8.2 to 8.4 did do the job and resolved the error. As I noticed the error hasn't been closed yet and it's exact origin not quite yet discovered, I thought I'd give some extra information. Certain Japanese fonts map the ¥ sign to the \ , causing paths to take the visual form of C:¥Users¥User etc. This is most often merely visual, however, can cause problems within certain programs. Furthermore, OS specific directories might be in Japanese (user = ユーザー ), however, this should once again be merely a visual change. As the original poster was running a Chinese system, I suspect the error is caused by either of the above, or similar, effects. Thanks for the suggestion of upgrading and if there's still an interest in the bug I hope a second error report might elucidate the problem a bit. Kind Regards, Pally -- Ticket URL: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/14398#comment:9 GHC http://www.haskell.org/ghc/ The Glasgow Haskell Compiler