On 23/02/10 18:46, Christian Maeder wrote:
Ross Paterson schrieb:
On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -0000, Bayley, Alistair wrote:
Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text:
author: Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones
It could well be Latin-1 encoded, rather than UTF8.
No, syb-0.1.0.3/syb.cabal is UTF-8-encoded (conforming to the Cabal docs).
My guess would be that the "locale" is not properly set. The environment variable LANG should be set to something shown by "locale -a" (i.e en_GB). Other LC_* variables should not be set. The variables should not be "C" or "POSIX".
(I was able to install syb-0.1.0.3 without a problem)
Both Cabal and ghc-pkg explicitly use UTF-8 for handling .cabal and package configuration files, so if you end up with a Latin-1 file in your package database then something has gone wrong. If anyone can reproduce this problem then please submit a ticket. Cheers, Simon