[Haskell-cafe] ghci can't load file whose name contains non-ASCII chars?

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

On 28 March 2012 18:44, Johannes Waldmann <waldmann at imn.htwk-leipzig.de> wrote:
> I must be making some obvious mistake here,
> but I'm not seeing it. The file name contains O-umlaut,
> and the OS handles it fine, but ghci does not like it
> (although it accepts umlauts in the contents of the file
> (UTF-8) e.g., as a module name)
>
> $ cat fÖÖbar.hs
> main = print $ product [1..100]
>
> $ ghci fÖÖbar.hs
> GHCi, version 7.4.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
> Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
> Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
> Loading package base ... linking ... done.
>
> <no location info>: can't find file: f??bar.hs
> Failed, modules loaded: none.
>
>
> this is on a standard ubuntu install (11.10 and 11.04) with
>
> $ locale
> LANG=en_US.UTF-8
> LANGUAGE=
> LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8"
> ...
>
> $ ghc --version
> The Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compilation System, version 7.4.1
> $ uname -a
> Linux octopus 3.0.0-16-generic #29-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 14 12:48:51 UTC 2012
> x86_64 x86_64 x86_64 GNU/Linux
>

I'm able to duplicate this (also on a 64bit Linux install with 7.4.1).

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