On Mon, Apr 19, 2010 at 02:57:00PM +0100, Simon Marlow wrote:
A few of the tests in the test suite assume a UTF-8 locale, so you're probably falling foul of that. We could fix the tests - but we do want to test that the locale encoding is being respected in some way, so just adding hSetEncoding to those tests would be wrong.
Nah, don't touch the tests because of this.
For the IO library, I expect you should default the encoding to Latin-1 on OpenBSD.
I've some (rather horrible) patch that tries to make sense out of LC_ALL or LC_CTYPE if set. And if it isn't set, I'm currently defaulting to 646//TRANSLIT (which is ASCII with translation of some non-ASCII characters to ASCII art, like `(c)' for \xa9). But Latin-1 may be a more usable default. Thanks for the suggestion. (No, I'm not going to send this patch to cvs-ghc, it's really too horrid). Ciao, Kili