The following haskell program :
--<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<< module Main where
accentLetters :: String accentLetters = "éàô"
main :: IO () main = do putStr (show accentLetters) -->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>
after being compiled will give the result :
"\233\224\244"
But, exactly the same program, without the "show" function will give the result:
éàô
Is there some way to have "show" show all the printable characters, even those represented by a value greater than the US-ASCII 7 bits (127) ?
This is the correct result, according to the Haskell 98 report (see the definition of Char.showLitChar). However, arguably the Haskell 98 behaviour is wrong, since there are lots of printable Unicode characters >127. We don't propose to do anything here. Cheers, Simon