Hi. I'm trying to print out UTF-8 strings (pulled from a MySQL database through HDBC.ODBC). If I just print them out, the extended characters are printed out as question marks. If I use show on them (which is what I want to do in this case) they are printed as \NNNNN... (presumably the Unicode number). Google brought up hundreds of topics for "Haskell utf-8" but its like looking for a single tree in a forest. I took great care to ensure my Gentoo Linux system is UTF-8 ready, and I can type or echo utf-8 characters on the command line just fine. # locale LANG=en_US.UTF-8 LC_CTYPE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NUMERIC="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TIME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_COLLATE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MONETARY="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MESSAGES="en_US.UTF-8" LC_PAPER="en_US.UTF-8" LC_NAME="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ADDRESS="en_US.UTF-8" LC_TELEPHONE="en_US.UTF-8" LC_MEASUREMENT="en_US.UTF-8" LC_IDENTIFICATION="en_US.UTF-8" LC_ALL= -- frigidcode.com theologia.indicium.us