On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:21:38AM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:05:18AM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:52:24PM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:31:37PM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > > Setting the locale *might* have side-effects, for instance we noticed > > > > before that heap profiling broke in some locales because the RTS code > > > > to > > > > generate the .hp file was using fprintf to print numbers, and the > > > > number > > > > format depends on the locale. > > > > > > You could avoid this by setting LC_CTYPE instead of LC_ALL. > > > > It's probably best if we work correctly even if the user needs to set > > LC_CTYPE themselves for some reason, though. > > I think you mean LC_NUMERIC. > > Setting LC_CTYPE won't affect printing numbers or collation, but it will > enable character encoding, which is what the original poster was after.
Oh, right, I misunderstood you, but I see what you mean now. But it would be best if the RTS worked no matter what the user set (as far as is possible, anyway). Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
