[Hackage] #609: ghc-pkg dump encoding

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#609: ghc-pkg dump encoding
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  Reporter:  igloo          |        Owner:         
      Type:  defect         |       Status:  new    
  Priority:  normal         |    Milestone:         
 Component:  Cabal library  |      Version:  1.6.0.1
  Severity:  normal         |     Keywords:         
Difficulty:  unknown        |   Ghcversion:         
  Platform:                 |  
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 With ghc-6.12.0.20091120, `FunctorSalad` on IRC found:
 {{{
 when I try to run some Setup.hs (of any package, apparently),
 it compiles, but ./Setup configure crashes with:
 Setup: fd:5: hGetContents: invalid argument (Invalid or
 incomplete multibyte or wide character)
 *** glibc detected *** ./Setup: double free or corruption
 (!prev): 0x098953a0 ***
 }}}
 As far as I can tell, the problem is that `./Setup` finds `/usr/bin/ghc`
 which is 6.10.4, and the output of `ghc-pkg dump | hexdump -C` includes:
 {{{
 00038060  63 6f 70 79 72 69 67 68  74 3a 20 a9 20 32 30 30  |copyright: .
 200|
 }}}
 i.e. there's a latin-1 copyright symbol 0xA9.

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