Re: [Haskell-cafe] some ideas for Haskell', from Python

1) In a Python string it is available the \U{name} escape, where name is a character name in the Unicode database.

As an example: foo = u"abc\N{VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF}"

I think you can use quasi quotation of ghc to achieve this ? Your code would look like this then: let foo = [$mystr|abc\N{VULGAR FRACTION ONE HALF}] Sincerly Marc Weber