[GHC] #3309: getArgs should return Unicode on Unix

[GHC]

#3309: getArgs should return Unicode on Unix
---------------------------------+------------------------------------------
    Reporter:  YitzGale          |        Owner:              
        Type:  bug               |       Status:  new         
    Priority:  normal            |    Milestone:  7.2.1       
   Component:  libraries/base    |      Version:  6.11        
    Keywords:  unicode           |     Testcase:              
   Blockedby:                    |   Difficulty:  Unknown     
          Os:  Unknown/Multiple  |     Blocking:              
Architecture:  Unknown/Multiple  |      Failure:  None/Unknown
---------------------------------+------------------------------------------

Comment(by ross):

 Replying to [comment:8 simonmar]:
 > Are you planning to make `peekCString` and friends do decoding by
 default?  I have a horrible feeling that will break lots of things. I know
 it's what the FFI spec requires, but since we've never done it, changing
 the behaviour now could be surprising.

 This behaviour has been specified by the FFI spec since 2002, and was
 incorporated into Haskell 2010.  The documentation of the module has been
 promising this change since 2004, and in all that time the alternative
 CAString versions have been available, so it's probably not too hasty to
 implement it now.  I fear you're right about breakage, but it has to
 happen some time.

-- 
Ticket URL: <http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/3309#comment:9>
GHC <http://www.haskell.org/ghc/>
The Glasgow Haskell Compiler