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ttuegel opened this issue Dec 3, 2017 · 3 comments
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UTF-8 encoding/decoding is broken #4927

ttuegel opened this issue Dec 3, 2017 · 3 comments
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ttuegel commented Dec 3, 2017

The UTF-8 encoding/decoding functions in Distribution.Utils.String are broken:

ghci> (decodeStringUtf8 . encodeStringUtf8) "\65534"
"\65533"

I believe this means that encodeStringUtf8 is producing invalid UTF-8.

CC: @hvr
See also: #4902
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hvr commented Dec 3, 2017

@ttuegel I know... :-) see #4644 (comment)

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23Skidoo commented Dec 3, 2017

@hvr Is this a duplicate? Feel free to close then.

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hvr commented Dec 3, 2017

@23Skidoo yeah; it's imho the same issue

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