character codes - How come the pound sign '£' in Haskell is shown as '163' instead of outputting '£'?

Question

This question already has an answer here: question from:https://stackoverflow.com/questions/65890522/how-come-the-pound-sign-%c2%a3-in-haskell-is-shown-as-163-instead-of-outputting

Answer 1

This was solved by using putStrLn, because print and show do not allow for non-ASCII characters to be shown.