Unicode, strings, and Show

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Why are we doing this?

  GHCi, version 7.10.3: http://www.haskell.org/ghc/  :? for help
  Prelude> "文字"
  "\25991\23383"
  Prelude> 

After all, we don’t print ’a’ as ’\97’.

Manuel