Characters shown as strings

[pesterhazy]

user=> \x
"x"

Expected:

\x

We should read characters as a defrecord that prints like \x

[cgrand]

easier said than done: the reader doesn't allow this customization. Fork the reader or fork unrepl.

[pesterhazy]

Seems like something that should really be fixed on the client side (the server does the right thing here).

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[cgrand]

I can imagine an option (e.g. --reader-ate-types to the blob builder to customize the printer). That's the low road; (this semicolon was a comma originally ;-)) the high road being to "fix" the reader.