Re: [Haskell-cafe] How to reverse ghc encoding of command linearguments

On Tue, Nov 18, 2014 at 2:30 AM, Donn Cave wrote:

quoth Ben Franksen ...

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Sorry for the confusion. And thanks for confirming that GHC and the base library do the right thing (if we let them).

Hm, that's my question -- how is this the right thing?

This sounds like a fossil. The first version of trying to support locales/encoding on POSIX did that to anything with the 8th bit set, IIRC, rather than make a possibly incorrect guess as to the intended locale (since POSIX does not support locales here; the argument vector is a list of octet strings). You could undo it and apply encoding yourself. I recall there being a "lively" discussion of it back in the day, but not what list it was on (may have been -cafe or libraries). -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allbery.b@gmail.com ballbery@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net