[Nix-dev] [nixpkgs] Fix haddock building for unicode packages (#864)

[roconnor at theorem.ca]

I patched this into my local master branch by hand, but compiling multirec 
has failed.

Anyone successfuly used this?

On Sun, 25 Aug 2013, Gergely Risko wrote:

> 
> Haskell packages that contain non-ascii characters in their .cabal file
> or somewhere else in their haddock documentation fail to compile under
> nixpkgs and usually flagged with noHaddock = true. I wanted to do the
> same for modularArithmentic, when I realized that we just have to set
> the locale to some UTF-8 compatible locale in build-support/cabal to fix
> this issue correctly.
> 
> ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________________
>
>     You can merge this Pull Request by running
>
>   git pull https://github.com/errge/nixpkgs haddockutf
> 
> Or view, comment on, or merge it at:
> 
>   https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/864
>
>     Commit Summary
>
>  *  Fix haddock building for unicode packages
>
>     File Changes
>
>  *  M pkgs/build-support/cabal/default.nix (1)
>  *  M pkgs/development/libraries/haskell/multirec/default.nix (1)
>
>     Patch Links:
>
>  *  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/864.patch
>  *  https://github.com/NixOS/nixpkgs/pull/864.diff
> 
>

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