On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 9:56 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty <c...@justtesting.org> wrote: > 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
Indeed: • 2016: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2016-February/122874.html • 2012: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/14039726/how-to-make-haskell-or-ghci-able-to-show-chinese-characters-and-run-chinese-char • 2012 again: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2012-July/102569.html • 2011: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/5535512/how-to-hack-ghci-or-hugs-so-that-it-prints-unicode-chars-unescaped • 2010: https://mail.haskell.org/pipermail/haskell-cafe/2010-August/082823.html This is a constant source of pain and should be relatively easy to fix. Manuel _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
