On Fri, Mar 14, 2008 at 12:05:18AM +0000, Ian Lynagh wrote: > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 10:52:24PM +0000, Ross Paterson wrote: > > On Thu, Mar 13, 2008 at 03:31:37PM -0700, Simon Marlow wrote: > > > Setting the locale *might* have side-effects, for instance we noticed > > > before that heap profiling broke in some locales because the RTS code to > > > generate the .hp file was using fprintf to print numbers, and the number > > > format depends on the locale. > > > > You could avoid this by setting LC_CTYPE instead of LC_ALL. > > It's probably best if we work correctly even if the user needs to set > LC_CTYPE themselves for some reason, though.
I think you mean LC_NUMERIC. Setting LC_CTYPE won't affect printing numbers or collation, but it will enable character encoding, which is what the original poster was after. _______________________________________________ Glasgow-haskell-users mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-users
