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    (It seems to me that the basic problem is that the environment string
    is exposed to Lisp, presumably because it predates multilingual
    issues, and really shouldn't be.  I think accessing it directly should
    be deprecated.)

The general idea of Emacs is to expose data structure to the Lisp
program whenever possible.  I see no reason to go against that here.