[Haskell-cafe] How to reverse ghc encoding of command line arguments

[Brandon Allbery]

On Sun, Nov 16, 2014 at 8:42 AM, Ben Franksen <ben.franksen at online.de>
wrote:

> How do I break this cycle?
>
> Perhaps it is simpler to write our own getArgs/getEnv functions and
> directly
> convert the data we get from the system to a proper (Unicode) String?
>

Ideally there should be a System.Posix.Environment.getArgs that just
returns the raw POSIX string (possibly as a ByteString); as with most of
POSIX, there is no defined encoding for this, it's octets. If you insist on
imposing an encoding on it, you could start from that.

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