[Haskell-cafe] hoogle command line program on Linux

[Neil Mitchell]

Hi Erik,

Hoogle 4.1.3 is now released, which reads and writes Hoogle input
files in UTF8 throughout. Please let me know if this doesn't fix your
problem.

Thanks, Neil

On Sun, Jan 9, 2011 at 11:22 AM, Neil Mitchell <ndmitchell at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
>> --
>> ----------------------------------------------------------------------
>> Erik de Castro Lopo
>> http://www.mega-nerd.com/
>>
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