Re: [Haskell-cafe] hClose: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)

On Tuesday 05 October 2010 23:34:56, Johannes Waldmann wrote:

I have this program

main = writeFile "check.out" "�"

that's u-umlaut, and the source file is utf-8-encoded and ghc-6.12.3 compiles it without problems but when running, I get

hClose: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)

(debian 5.0.6, kernel 2.6.18-6-686. I know that's somewhat dated. Would upgrading help?)

Regards - J.W.

What does locale say your locale is? If it's *.UTF-8, it should work, if not, that's a likely cause.