[Haskell-cafe] writeFile: commitBuffer: invalid argument (Illegal byte sequence)

[Erik Hesselink]

What is the value of your LANG environment variable? Does it still
give the error if you set it to e.g. "en_US.UTF-8"?

Erik

On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 13:12, dokondr <dokondr at gmail.com> wrote:
> Correct url of a "bad" string:
> http://twitter.com/#!/search/Hoping%20You%20Have%20A%20iPhone%20When%20I%20Do%20This%20lang%3Aen
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> On Sun, Dec 4, 2011 at 3:08 PM, dokondr <dokondr at gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> Hi,
>> In  GHC 7.0.3 / Mac OS X when trying to:
>>
>> writeFile  "someFile" "(Hoping You Have A iPhone When I Do This) Lol Sleep
>> Is When You Close These ---&gt; \55357\56384"
>>
>> I get:
>> commitBuffer: invalid argument (Illegal byte sequence)
>>
>> The string I am trying to write can also be seen here:
>>
>> http://twitter.com/#!/search/Hoping%20You%20Have%20A%20iPhone%20When%20I%20Do%20This%20lang%3Aen
>>
>> It looks like 'writeFile' can not write unicode characters.
>> Any workarounds?
>>
>> Thanks!
>> Dmitri
>>
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