[Haskell-beginners] Data.Text to Int?

[Emmanuel Touzery]

Hello,

     I expected "read" to work directly on a Data.Text because Data.Text 
has an instance of the Read class, but it seems to fail:

---------
import Data.Text

main = do
     let a = pack "1"
     let b = read a :: Int
     putStrLn "parsed OK"
---------

test.hs:5:22:
     Couldn't match expected type `String' with actual type `Text'
     In the first argument of `read', namely `a'
     In the expression: read a :: Int
     In an equation for `b': b = read a :: Int


Sure I can do"read (unpack a) :: Int" but there must be a way to do it 
directly?

Emmanuel
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