Output not displayed when (incorrectly parsed?) unicode characters in string

[nilshg]

Just came across this slightly puzzling issue:

using TableView, DataFrames

showtable(DataFrame(a = 0.0, b = "t\xe9st"))

This produces an empty output table, showing only the column header row but no data.

This happened when I read in a CSV with French characters - StackOverflow tells me that \xe9 is é. If I replace the string with "tést", so it seems to be an issue with an incorrectly parsed unicode character.

Still, it seems to me that not displaying any output is a bug?