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

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