On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 10:12 AM, Ross Paterson <span dir="ltr">&lt;<a href="mailto:ross@soi.city.ac.uk">ross@soi.city.ac.uk</a>&gt;</span> wrote:<br><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
<div class="im">On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -0000, Bayley, Alistair wrote:<br>
&gt; Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text:<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; author:                 Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones<br>
&gt;<br>
&gt; It could well be Latin-1 encoded, rather than UTF8.<br>
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</div>No, syb-0.1.0.3/syb.cabal is UTF-8-encoded (conforming to the Cabal docs).</blockquote><div><br></div><div>I had similar issues when attempting to install a new version of syb over an old version[1]. I had to open this file in emacs:</div>
<div><br></div><div> /usr/lib/ghc-6.13/package.conf.d/syb-0.1.0.3.conf</div><div><br></div><div>and the do:</div><div><br></div><div>M-x set-buffer-file-coding-system utf-8</div><div><br></div><div>I think there was a point in time where something wrote contains to that file as latin1 instead of utf-8 or something. </div>
<div><br></div><div>- jeremy</div><div><br></div><div>[1] it might have actually been the same version of syb, but rebuilt with a different version of the compiler or something..</div></div>