To show or not to show french accents

[francis.girard at free.fr]

Good morning,

The following haskell program :

--<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
module Main where

accentLetters :: String
accentLetters = "éàô"

main :: IO ()
main = do putStr (show accentLetters)
-->>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>

after being compiled will give the result :

"\233\224\244"

But, exactly the same program, without the "show" function will give the result:

éàô

Is there some way to have "show" show all the printable characters, even those
represented by a value greater than the US-ASCII 7 bits (127) ?

Thank you

Francis Girard
LE CONQUET
France