[Hackage] #856: windows unicode problem with cabal list

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#856: windows unicode problem with cabal list
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  Reporter:  guest               |        Owner:          
      Type:  defect              |       Status:  new     
  Priority:  normal              |    Milestone:          
 Component:  cabal-install tool  |      Version:  1.10.1.0
  Severity:  normal              |     Keywords:          
Difficulty:  unknown             |   Ghcversion:          
  Platform:  Windows             |  
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Comment(by batterseapower):

 The default console locale on Windows is CP850 which is most certainly not
 a Unicode superset. Try running "cabal list" from e.g. Cygwin's Mintty in
 a Unicode locale and you should get the right output.

 Perhaps we could change the default CodingFailureMode used to write to
 std{out,err} to TransliterateCodingFailure, which would replace the
 invalid characters with "?". I'm just concerned that this might not be the
 right thing to do for all Haskell programs.

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