On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Christian Maeder
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)
Cheers Christian
If we're relying on the locale being set properly is the fix then to force <insert tool here> to always read in Cabal package descriptions as UTF-8? Antoine