[Haskell-beginners] hGetContents, unicode and linux

[Yitzchak Gale]

Erik de Castro Lopo wrote:
>    hGetContents: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
> I've done some googling which seems to suggest that I need to set
> the LANG environment variable, but I already have that set to
> en_AU.UTF-8.

You can check to see what encoding GHC has picked up from your
environment by examining localeEncoding.

You can force the encoding to UTF-8 by

hSetEncoding stdin utf8
hSetEncoding stdout utf8

All of the above in the context of import System.IO, of course.

Regards,
Yitz