Unable to print exceptions of unicode identifiers

I suspect this is windows specific but I'm not certain (I couldn't reproduce it with an older ghc on osx).

Here is an example of the problem:

$ ghcii.sh
GHCi, version 7.6.1: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
Loading package ghc-prim ... linking ... done.
Loading package integer-gmp ... linking ... done.
Loading package base ... linking ... done.
Prelude λ> ⇒

<interactive>:2:1: parse error on input `*** Exception: <stderr>: hPutChar: invalid argument (invalid character)

On other platforms the message looks more like: parse error on input `=>'

(not the automatic translation from ⇒ to =>, I think that's a separate bug related to the unicode symbols extension)

On windows my ghc is version 7.6.1. On OSX (where I could NOT reproduce the exception), my ghc is 7.4.1. I don't know if the GHC version matters. I strongly suspect this is a windows unicode issue.

GHC gives similar behavior to ghci, for example on this input:

⇒ = 1

ghc tries to give an error message but throws an exception printing ⇒.

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Trac field	Value
Version	7.6.1
Type	Bug
TypeOfFailure	OtherFailure
Priority	normal
Resolution	Unresolved
Component	Compiler
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