Why rescript escapes string by default?

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For example:
image
would be compiled into:
image
and would display on page like:
image
After walking through the docs I found that I can use backtick string to avoid escaping, but I’m curious why is this escaping happening at the first place?

Edit: I see the team is working on double-quote strings to make it behave like backtick strings, but I still wonder why it was designed like this.

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Hey! This is currently actively being worked on and will be fixed in the next release. If you’re curious about the technical details, you can follow along here: Unicode support by IwanKaramazow · Pull Request #433 · rescript-lang/syntax · GitHub

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Thanks for the information! So if I understand correctly, the escaping is happening because rescript compiler treats source code as an ASCII characters stream?

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Indeed, string literals are currently passing through some compiler code that escapes non-ascii content.

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OK, thanks for the explanation again!