> The following haskell program :
>
> --<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<<
> module Main where
>
> accentLetters :: String
> accentLetters = "יאפ"
>
> 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:
>
> יאפ
>
> 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) ?
This is the correct result, according to the Haskell 98 report (see the definition of
Char.showLitChar). However, arguably the Haskell 98 behaviour is wrong, since there
are lots of printable Unicode characters >127. We don't propose to do anything here.
Cheers,
Simon
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