[Haskell-cafe] hoogle command line program on Linux

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Erik,

I'll release Hoogle 4.1.3 with a fix later today.

Thanks, Neil

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 5:07 AM, Erik de Castro Lopo
<mle+hs at mega-nerd.com> wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I'm testing out hoogle 4.1.2 on Debian Linux and getting the
> following when trying to update the local hoogle databases:
>
>    erik > sudo hoogle data
>    Starting default
>    Starting keyword
>    hoogle: keyword.txt: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid argument
>    (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character)
>
> My LANG related envorinment variables are set as follows:
>
>    erik > env | grep LANG
>    LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>    GDM_LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>    LANGUAGE=en_AU.UTF-8
>    LC_LANG=en_AU.UTF-8
>
> When faced with a similar problem while working on Ben Lippmeier's
> compiler, I fixed this by replacing all instances of readFile with
> readUtf8File which is defined as:
>
>    readUtf8File :: FilePath -> IO String
>    readUtf8File filePath
>     = do   h <- openFile filePath ReadMode
>            hSetEncoding h utf8
>            hSetEncoding stdout utf8
>            hGetContents h
>
> Is it possible to fix this without hacking the hoogles sources?
> I'd like to package hoogle for Debian, but first I need to get
> it working.
>
> Cheers,
> Erik
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