[xmonad] Issue 606 in xmonad: recompile error window has bad escaping

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New issue 606 by ***@gmail.com: recompile error window has bad escaping
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=606

What steps will reproduce the problem?
1. xmonad --recompile with error
2. look at output window that opens (see attached screenshot)


What version of the product are you using? On what operating system?

0.11.1


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Comment #1 on issue 606 by ***@gmail.com: recompile error window has
bad escaping
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=606

More specifically, it's producing UTF8-encoded output; but xmessage is
ancient and doesn't speak UTF8, only ISO8859-1. Possibly just forcing
LANG=C on ghc would work --- but I'm not sure if that would then disallow
UTF8 in source files (ghc's encoding handling is a little strange for
historical reasons).

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Comment #2 on issue 606 by ***@gmail.com: recompile error window has
bad escaping
https://code.google.com/p/xmonad/issues/detail?id=606

We could use zenity or Xmessage, but those depend on gtk2/3.