Error when generating the html output: commitAndReleaseBuffer: invalid argument (invalid character) about elm-make

[grzegorzbalcerek]

Not sure if that might be important. But my Windows system is in Polish. Could that introduce an invalid character somewhere?

[jvoigtlaender]

If it is a character encoding problem caused by your language setting, maybe this is relevant or could even help your situation.

[texastoland]

I get this trying to compile on Windows with Unicode characters c.f. Hakyll FAQ.

[artgitt]

This might be relevant
https://www.reddit.com/r/haskell/comments/37y0cz/little_bug_hunting_help_stdout/

[stormont]

I also get this error doing a straight copy/paste of the HTTP Tasks part of the Reactivity tutorial: http://elm-lang.org/guide/reactivity

Using elm-make to compile to elm.js works fine; it only exhibits the error when compiling to HTML.

Specifically, the HTML generation stops shortly after the third real usage of the "smartypants" field. Comparing to the full elm.js, it looks like it's halting on these characters:

• return text.replace(/--/g,"—").replace(/(^|[-\u2014/(\[{"\s])'/g,"$1‘").replace(/'/g,"’").replace(/(^|[-\u2014/(\[{\u2018\s])"/g,"$1“").replace(/"/g,"�").replace(/\.{3}/g,"…")};

The HTML output simply ends with this:

• return text.replace(/--/g,"

(I'm in the US, if that helps with tracking down the necessary encodings.)

Edit: I just wrote up a blog post for working around this until the bug is resolved. A simple trick is to generate the elm.js file and just import it into an HTML page, as the error seems to only affect the HTML generation, not the JS generation.

[deadfoxygrandpa]

I'm now seeing this error on Windows 7 using Elm 0.16.0. I was able to resolve it by changing the code page to 65001

[adicirstei]

Any news on this?

[ianrae]

Seeing this error on Windows 8 and Elm 0.16. Am working through http://elm-by-example.org/chapter1helloworld.html. HelloWorld1, 2, and 3 work fine. HelloWorld4 (which requires elm-markdown) has the error.

[nmdanny]

Encountered this error on the reactivity guide at the HTTP Tasks part.

[philderbeast]

As reported by others in this thread and from the Hakyll link, on windows running chcp 65001 fixed this problem for me.

[evancz]

I believe @jvoigtlaender resolved this, and the fix came out with 0.17. We can open again if it persists.