On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 12:46 PM, Christian Maeder <christian.mae...@dfki.de> wrote: > Ross Paterson schrieb: >> On Tue, Feb 23, 2010 at 03:05:56PM -0000, Bayley, Alistair wrote: >>> Just a wild guess, but the package description has this non-ascii text: >>> >>> author: Ralf Lämmel, Simon Peyton Jones >>> >>> It could well be Latin-1 encoded, rather than UTF8. >> >> No, syb-0.1.0.3/syb.cabal is UTF-8-encoded (conforming to the Cabal docs). > > My guess would be that the "locale" is not properly set. The environment > variable LANG should be set to something shown by "locale -a" (i.e > en_GB). Other LC_* variables should not be set. > The variables should not be "C" or "POSIX". > > (I was able to install syb-0.1.0.3 without a problem) > > Cheers Christian >
If we're relying on the locale being set properly is the fix then to force <insert tool here> to always read in Cabal package descriptions as UTF-8? Antoine _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list Glasgow-haskell-users@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
