Unicode, strings, and Show

Ben Gamari ben at smart-cactus.org
Wed Mar 30 08:51:22 UTC 2016


Evan Laforge <qdunkan at gmail.com> writes:

> There was recently a discussion about it, search for subject "Can we
> improve Show instance for non-ascii charcters?"
>
> You can read for yourself but my impression was that people were
> generally favorable, but had some backward compatibility worries, and
> came up with some workarounds, but no one committed to following up on
> a ghci patch.
>
It would be great if someone could create a Trac ticket so we had
someplace persistent to track this discussion. Manuel, perhaps you could
handle this?

Cheers,

- Ben

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