Is it an error to call hGetLine on a non-blocking Handle?

[Brandon Allbery]

On Mon, May 19, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Alain O'Dea <alain.odea at gmail.com> wrote:

> On a whim I tried setting LC_ALL to en_US.UTF-8 and the problem
> disappeared.  Does hGetLine have undefined behavior if locale
> environment variables (LANG, LC_*) are unset?
>

This makes me wonder if it's actually throwing an encoding error which
somehow gets overwritten or mis-recorded (similar to the C newcomer's
mistake in trusting errno when an error was not indicated).

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