[Haskell-cafe] question about show

[Brandon Allbery]

On Wed, Mar 5, 2014 at 5:20 PM, <k at ioctl.it> wrote:

>  Okay, it makes somewhat more sense now after reading that thread. But
> technically, why does
>
> show "ü"
>
> not handle Unicode? Isn't the internal representation of [Char] actually
> still Unicode, as per
>

Historical reasons, I imagine; Unicode I/O support is still relatively
recent in GHC, and I doubt anyone went back and revisited the Show instance
for Char.

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