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. On Tue, Mar 29, 2016 at 7:26 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 > > _______________________________________________ > ghc-devs mailing list > ghc-devs@haskell.org > http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs _______________________________________________ ghc-devs mailing list ghc-devs@haskell.org http://mail.haskell.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/ghc-devs
