On Sat, Oct 24, 2009 at 01:27:39PM -0700, Philippos Apolinarius wrote: > I have a friend who is an architect. I asked her why she does not use > Haskell, since she is fond of functional programming. She writes her scripts > in Clean, and needs to compile them before using them to generate postscript > diagrams. In Haskell, I told her, she could use runghc, and skip the > compilation step. She told me that she would consider switching to Haskell, > and skipping the compilation step, if I could tell her how to write "façade" > in Haskell. > > C:\ghc\hastex>runghc tudin.hs > > tudin.hs:10:19: > lexical error in string/character literal (UTF-8 decoding error) > > After browsing the Internet, I noticed that a many of people are having the > same problem. Could someone tell me what is wrong with my friend's program?
Her editor probably saved the file in a text encoding other than UTF-8, such as ISO-8859-1. By definition a Haskell program is a Unicode text document. runhaskell is encountering an invalid UTF-8 sequence E7 61 while decoding your program file. The other responses will be relevant too, once the program is lexically correct. Regards, Reid Barton _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
