How to work around GHC bug

Hi! The following program demonstrates a (another) GHC bug. The command line isn't properly decoded to Unicode. arg.hs------------------------------ import System main = do [a] <- getArgs putStrLn (show a) -------------------------------------- When called like this: ./arg ä The program will output this: "\195\164" I'll report this as a bug in the GHC Trac. But for now, I need to work around the problem somehow. The encoders in GHC.IO.Encoding all work on buffers. How do I recode the command line, in order to get proper Unicode strings? Bye Volker