#5975: ghci can't load file whose name contains non-ASCII chars?
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Reporter: j.waldmann | Owner:
Type: bug | Status: patch
Priority: normal | Milestone:
Component: GHCi | Version: 7.4.1
Keywords: | Os: Linux
Architecture: x86_64 (amd64) | Failure: None/Unknown
Difficulty: Unknown | Testcase:
Blockedby: | Blocking:
Related: |
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Changes (by pcapriotti):
* status: new => patch
* difficulty: => Unknown
Comment:
The attached patch fixes the problem.
I'm not quite sure what the extra encoding/decoding step was for in the
original code. As it stands, it just truncates input strings `Char` to
`Word8`, so it breaks for non-ascii characters in utf-8 (say).
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Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5975#comment:2>
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