read "hexadecimal digits"?

Hi,

As the following script shows, hexa-decimal digits
cannot be recognized by 'Prelude.read'. 
It seems to be a bug.

Regards,

Kwanghoon Choi

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[khchoi@www] 37 % cat Test.hs
                                                                                
module Main where
                                                                                
import Char
                                                                                
main =
 do {
      putStrLn (show (chr (read "0x2B" :: Int)))
    }
                                                                                
                                                                                
[khchoi@www] 39 % nhc98 -o test Test.hs
[khchoi@www] 40 % ./test
Prelude.read: no parse
[khchoi@www] 41 %