Unicode lexer issue?

[Simon Marlow]

Ralf Lammel wrote:

> I am just trying to build GHC under Windows. (It worked previously.)
> (I am using Alex version 2.0.1, if this is relevant.)
> 
> Make dies this way:
> 
> parser/Lexer.x:561:10:
>     lexical error in string/character literal at character '\8704'
> <<ghc: 163455240 bytes, 14 GCs, 481756/944180 avg/max bytes residency (2
> samples
> ), 16M in use, 0.01 INIT (0.00 elapsed), 0.55 MUT (0.55 elapsed), 0.05
> GC (0.06 
> elapsed) :ghc>>
> make[2]: *** [stage2/parser/Lexer.o] Error 1
> make[2]: Leaving directory
> `/cygdrive/c/HOME/projects/ghc-fptools/ghc/compiler'
> make[1]: *** [stage2] Error 2
> make[1]: Leaving directory `/cygdrive/c/HOME/projects/ghc-fptools'
> make: *** [bootstrap2] Error 2
> 
> Does this ring any bell?
> Is this related to the recent check-in (see below).

Strange, I don't know what might cause this.  Our nightly builds went 
through on Linux with the UTF-8 changes last night, but there were quite 
a few test failures that I need to look into.  We should get the report 
from the windows build later, let's see what happens.

Cheers,
	Simon