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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 /doc
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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@@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Try unsetting LANG and passing git-annex unicode filenames.
> with certian input filenames, while in en_US.UTF-8, it's ok.
> The workaround below avoided the problem in de_DE.UTF-8. --[[Joey]]
+> Put in the utf-8 forcing workaround for now. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
+
## underlying haskell problem and workaround
The same problem can be seen with a simple haskell program: