[ ghc-Bugs-1212959 ] lexical error with non-ascii chars in literals

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Bugs item #1212959, was opened at 2005-06-01 18:53
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Category: Compiler (Parser)
Group: 6.4
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: lexical error with non-ascii chars in literals

Initial Comment:
For GHC 6.4 on SuSE Linux 9.2 (installed from the GHC RPM).  
 
When including SOME non-ascii characters in character or 
string literals, in the source code, I get a "lexical error in 
string/character literal" error message. Examples are some 
french accents and german umlauts - é,Ü,Ä. However, with 
other characters from the same set (like üä) there is no 
problem, they are processed correctly 
 
I checked with Hugs and there were no problems, so it seems 
to be a GHC bug. 
 
For further questions send email to: Rainer Volz, mail at 
vrtprj.com 
 
 
 
 
 

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>Comment By: Simon Marlow (simonmar)
Date: 2005-06-02 08:32

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It works fine for me.  What encoding are you using?  GHC
only understands the Latin-1 (ISO8859-1) encoding for source
files.  If you are using Latin-1, then please attach a
source file that we can test.

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