On Sun, Jul 29, 2012 at 8:04 PM, Richard Cobbe <co...@ccs.neu.edu> wrote: > This is annoying because all of the Unicode charts give the code points in > hex, and indeed the charts are split into different PDFs at numbers that > are nice and round in hex but not in decimal. So in order to figure out > which character I'm looking at, I have to convert back to hex and then look > it up in the charts.
My reading of the Haskell 98 report is that the Show instance for Char *could* use hex escapes, so this is a compiler choice. If there isn't a good reason for this choice, perhaps GHC could change? --Max _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe