On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:20 PM, <k@ioctl.it> wrote:
Okay, it makes somewhat more sense now after reading that thread. But technically, why does 
 
show "ü" 
 
not handle Unicode? Isn't the internal representation of [Char] actually still Unicode, as per 

Historical reasons, I imagine; Unicode I/O support is still relatively recent in GHC, and I doubt anyone went back and revisited the Show instance for Char.

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