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diff --git a/doc/bugs/unhappy_without_UTF8_locale.mdwn b/doc/bugs/unhappy_without_UTF8_locale.mdwn deleted file mode 100644 index 8d22b9ee4..000000000 --- a/doc/bugs/unhappy_without_UTF8_locale.mdwn +++ /dev/null @@ -1,41 +0,0 @@ -Try unsetting LANG and passing git-annex unicode filenames. - - joey@gnu:~/tmp/aa>git annex add ./Üa - add add add add git-annex: <stdout>: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid - argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character) - -> Interestingly, I can get the same crash in the de_DE.UTF-8 locale -> 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: - - import System.Environment - import Codec.Binary.UTF8.String - main = do - args <- getArgs - putStrLn $ decodeString $ args !! 0 - - joey@gnu:~/src/git-annex>LANG= runghc ~/foo.hs Ü - foo.hs: <stdout>: hPutChar: invalid argument (Invalid or incomplete multibyte or wide character) - -(The call to `decodeString` is necessary to make the input -unicode string be displayed properly in a utf8 locale, but -does not contribute to this problem.) - -I guess that haskell is setting the IO encoding to latin1, which -is [documented](http://haskell.org/ghc/docs/latest/html/libraries/base/System-IO.html#v:latin1) -to error out on characters > 255. - -So this program doesn't have the problem -- but may output garbage -on non-utf-8 capable terminals: - - import System.IO - main = do - hSetEncoding stdout utf8 - args <- getArgs - putStrLn $ decodeString $ args !! 0 |