put in utf8 forcing workaround

Haskell's IO layer crashes on characters > 255 when in a non-unicode (latin1)
locale. Until Haskell gets better behavior, put in an admittedly ugly
workaround for that: git-annex forces utf8 output mode no matter what
locale is selected. So if you use a non-utf8 locale, your filenames with
characters > 127 will not be displayed as you'd expect. But at least it
won't crash.
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Joey Hess 2011-03-08 18:05:20 -04:00
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@ -8,6 +8,8 @@ Try unsetting LANG and passing git-annex unicode filenames.
> with certian input filenames, while in en_US.UTF-8, it's ok.
> The workaround below avoided the problem in de_DE.UTF-8. --[[Joey]]
> Put in the utf-8 forcing workaround for now. [[done]] --[[Joey]]
## underlying haskell problem and workaround
The same problem can be seen with a simple haskell program: