Installing syb(-0.1.03) package in head version of Haskell

[Simon Marlow]

On 24/02/2010 10:07, Christian Maeder wrote:
> Simon Marlow schrieb:
>> On 23/02/10 18:46, Christian Maeder 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)
>>
>> Both Cabal and ghc-pkg explicitly use UTF-8 for handling .cabal and
>> package configuration files, so if you end up with a Latin-1 file in
>> your package database then something has gone wrong.  If anyone can
>> reproduce this problem then please submit a ticket.
>
> Indeed, I have a latin-1 file
>
> /local/maeder/lib/ghc-6.13.20100211/package.conf.d/syb-0.1.0.3-2d8f18fd3343792a85816b191d973cea.conf:
> ISO-8859 English text
>
> and my (accidental) setting is:
>
> LANG=de_DE at euro
> LANGUAGE=
> LC_ALL=C

And you got that by just 'cabal install syb'?  What version of 
cabal-install?  (cabal --version)

Cheers,
	Simon