On Sa, Apr 10 2010, Joachim Breitner wrote: > Hi Henry, > > Am Donnerstag, den 08.04.2010, 11:33 +0200 schrieb henry atting: >> On Do, Apr 08 2010, Kari Pahula wrote: >> > On Wed, Apr 07, 2010 at 04:31:07PM +0200, henry atting wrote: >> >> BTW, on the hledger website are some older builds to download which are >> >> working fine. >> > >> > Could you please try narrowing down which was the last version that >> > worked correctly for you? It'd help if I had some simple test case >> > for this. It's something more subtle if putStrLn indeed outputs >> > correct UTF-8. >> >> The version which works (downloaded as binary from >> http://hledger.org/binaries/) is: hledger-0.7 with vty >> >> The current version that does not work correctly (installed with `cabal >> install`) is: hledger-0.8 with vty >> >> If I use the simple ncurses ui the euro sign and umlauts are displayed >> correctly. (in both versions) > > I assume that hledger-0.7 is built with ghc-6.10 and that you built 0.8 > with ghc-6.12. > > Without looking at the code, this is what happening most likely: The > hledger code did not actually change. In both instances in transforms > unicode characters into UTF8-encoded byte sequences (still represented > as [Char]), and prints them using "putStrLn". > > ghc-6.10 would print these byte-for-byte, and they turn up correctly on > your computer. > > ghc-6.12 is smarter and transforms them to the local locale, in your > case, UTF8. The effect is what you see: double-encoded UTF8 strings. > > So this is not a bug in ghc, but a bug in hledger that turned up due to > the (thankfully) more sensible behaviour in ghc. > > You need to talk to the hledger maintainer if he already has code that > works with ghc-6.12.
Yes, your assumption was absolutely correct. Just yesterday a new version of hledger was announced (0.9)- with GHC 6.12 support. Now regarding the utf-8 problem everything works as it should. Greetings and thanks, henry -- http://literaturlatenight.de -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-rc-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
