text-show offers a replacement for the Show typeclass intended for use with Text instead of Strings. This package was created in the spirit of bytestring-show.

At the moment, text-show provides Show instances for most data types in the array, base, bytestring, containers, text, and time packages. Therefore, much of the source code for text-show consists of borrowed code from those packages in order to ensure that the behaviors of the two Show typeclasses coincide.

For most uses, simply importing Text.Show.Text will suffice:

{-# LANGUAGE NoImplicitPrelude #-}
module Main where

import Data.Text (Text)
import Prelude hiding (Show(..), print)
import Text.Show.Text

number :: Text
number = show (Just "Hello, World!")

main :: IO ()
main = print number

If you desire it, there are also monomorphic versions of the showb function available in the submodules of Text.Show.Text. A naming convention is present in which functions that show different values depending on the precedence end with Prec (e.g., showbIntPrec), whereas functions that show the same values regardless of precedence do not end with Prec (e.g., showbBool).

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text-format	Do not use text-format, since it may require double-conversion and thus linking of libstdc++, which may break compilation due to GHC bug #5289: http://ghc.haskell.org/trac/ghc/ticket/5289	Disabled

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