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authorGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-08 18:05:20 -0400
committerGravatar Joey Hess <joey@kitenet.net>2011-03-08 18:05:20 -0400
commit26544de9463291b8185fdd1a7c1b33710ef7db3c (patch)
treeab7d626afd1908f6f089e154f87e2585dff703d6 /Messages.hs
parentb85c91743c73597f41cae73b042ffa86be929ed3 (diff)
put in utf8 forcing workaround
Haskell's IO layer crashes on characters > 255 when in a non-unicode (latin1) locale. Until Haskell gets better behavior, put in an admittedly ugly workaround for that: git-annex forces utf8 output mode no matter what locale is selected. So if you use a non-utf8 locale, your filenames with characters > 127 will not be displayed as you'd expect. But at least it won't crash.
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diff --git a/Messages.hs b/Messages.hs
index 90857280a..83b3ecf23 100644
--- a/Messages.hs
+++ b/Messages.hs
@@ -64,3 +64,12 @@ indent s = join "\n" $ map (\l -> " " ++ l) $ lines s
- non-decoded form. -}
filePathToString :: FilePath -> String
filePathToString = if SysConfig.unicodefilepath then id else UTF8.decodeString
+
+{- Workaround to avoid crashes displaying filenames containing
+ - characters > 255 in non-utf8 locales. Force encodings to utf-8,
+ - even though this may mean some characters in the encoding
+ - are mangled. -}
+forceUtf8 :: IO ()
+forceUtf8 = do
+ hSetEncoding stdout utf8
+ hSetEncoding stderr utf8