Let's notify the maintainer to use an ordinary minus sign: http://hackage.haskell.org/package/ranges-0.2.3 my "scan" program (http://hackage.haskell.org/package/scan) reports: Ranges.hs:12:9: undesirable character '\t' Ranges.hs:12:51: undesirable character '\226' Ranges.hs:12:52: undesirable character '\128' Ranges.hs:12:53: undesirable character '\147' Cheers Christian Am 22.01.2011 18:33, schrieb Donn Cave:
For me, that's an en-dash (U+2013 / '\8211'). I believe something on your box mangled the UTF-8 encoding.
When I saw this last night, I looked out of curiosity and saw the same thing, as my browser rendered the source with a dash.
My thought was that this morning, someone would be embarrassed to see that he or she had gratuitously, but accidentally, made use of an exotic character when an ordinary 7 bit ASCII equivalent would have been fine and foolproof. I.e., it's a coding error, which we found out about thanks to Mr. Gray's platform encoding problem. Wrong again?
Donn