On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 16:35 +0100, Duncan Coutts wrote: > On Sat, 2008-08-23 at 14:11 +0100, Claus Reinke wrote:
> > user error (CreateDirectory: Cno raeafl hnta iearayeit. > > eh.. what? such gibberish is worrying. > > We think the reason is that the ASCII variant of Win32's GetLastError is > getting called rather than the UTF16 Unicode variant. However the result > is still decoded into String as UTF16, then the result is printed using > 8-bit ASCII IO. The result is missing every other character from the > error string. > > A first guess is that it's most likely to be an accidental consequence > of the -DUNICODE change from a couple days ago. See: http://www.haskell.org/pipermail/cvs-libraries/2008-August/009502.html _______________________________________________ Cvs-ghc mailing list Cvs-ghc@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/cvs-ghc