On 22 January 2011 16:31, Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fischer@googlemail.com> wrote:
On Saturday 22 January 2011 17:01:00, Aaron Gray wrote:
> >
> > For me, that's an en-dash (U+2013 / '\8211').
> > I believe something on your box mangled the UTF-8 encoding.
>
> Weird I did a cabal install and have not touched it with an editor.
Except to look at it trying to find the issue, I suppose (how else did you
find the "–")?
I downloaded it separately from the HackageDB.
What's your locale?
Could also be that GHC tries to interpret UTF-8 in your locale and barfs on
that.
Not sure ? Vista's default.
>
> Are you on Windows ?
No, linux.
Ah
How do I get Cabal to install a package from disk rather than from the internet ?
Many thanks,
Aaron