On 24/02/2010 10:07, Christian Maeder wrote:
Simon Marlow schrieb:
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.
Indeed, I have a latin-1 file
/local/maeder/lib/ghc-6.13.20100211/package.conf.d/syb-0.1.0.3-2d8f18fd3343792a85816b191d973cea.conf: ISO-8859 English text
and my (accidental) setting is:
LANG=de_DE@euro LANGUAGE= LC_ALL=C
And you got that by just 'cabal install syb'? What version of cabal-install? (cabal --version) Cheers, Simon