Hi, I am trying to process command line arguments that may contain Unicode (cyrillic in this example) characters. The standard GHC's getArgs seems to pass whatever was obtained from the underlying C library without any regard to encoding, e. g the following program (testarg.hs): module Main where import System.Environment main = do x <- getArgs mapM (putStrLn . show) x being invoked (ghc 6.10.1) runghc testarg -T 'при<в>ет' prints the following: "-T" "\208\191\209\128\208\184<\208\178>\208\181\209\130" (not correct, all bytes were passed without proper encoding) Is there any way to get program arguments in GHC Unicode-aware? Or at least assuming that they are always in UTF-8? Something like System.IO.UTF8, but for command line arguments? Thanks. PS: BTW runhugs testarg -T 'при<в>ет' prints: "-T" "\1087\1088\1080<\1074>\1077\1090" which is correct. -- Dimitry Golubovsky Anywhere on the Web