On Thu, Dec 31, 2009 at 1:47 PM, Simon Marlow
On 31/12/09 18:35, Antoine Latter wrote:
Further details:
If I patch alex to explicitly set the encoding whenever it reads from or writes to a file, all of these problems go away. I'm not really sure why alex needs this and nothing else does, but so it goes.
Is there a separate bug tracker for alex, or should this just be a GHC bug?
Thanks for looking into this - yes Alex needs to explicitly use utf8 for reading and writing files. Those of us using a utf-8 locale probably wouldn't have noticed the problem, what's your locale set to?
If you can send me the patch, that will save me time figuring it out for myself. Alex doesn't have a bug tracker, but you're welcome to use GHC's if you want.
Cheers, Simon
I have the following environment variable set: __CF_USER_TEXT_ENCODING=0x1F5:0:0 But I have no idea what that means. Presumably something other than utf8. The alex patch is attached, but I have not tested it on anything other than GHC 6.12. Antoine