On May 14, 2010, at 20:24 , Brandon Simmons wrote:
The other baffling thing is this: if the debugging line 426 is uncommented, then even running:
$> runghc Befunge.hs --quiet mycology.b98
...will fail. But all we're doing is a call to `putStr`! Why would that trigger an error?! Maybe there was a bug in my code that was
GHC 6.12's runtime handles input and output encoding, instead of simply truncating Chars; my guess is it's locale-related. And sure enough, I see several non-ASCII characters in mycology.b98 which are likely to do the wrong thing if the runtime doesn't know which character set to use.
Thanks, that makes a lot of sense. Is there something I can read to enlighten myself as to how I would go about getting my program to be liberal about non-ascii characters in a file? Also, I noticed yesterday that $> cabal list --installed shows the 'old-locale' package: * old-locale Synopsis: locale library Latest version available: 1.0.0.2 Latest version installed: 1.0.0.2 License: BSD3 I'm not sure if that could be part of the issue, or whether that is normal. Thanks again, Brandon Simmons http://coder.bsimmons.name/
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