Restricting string literals to Text only

Question

I\'m aware that the OverloadedStrings language pragma wraps an implicit fromString around all string literals. What I\'d like to do is not actually

Answer 1

Not a way to achieve this now, but maybe eventually, is the instance force as proposed in a GHC feature proposal under discussion, where you’d say

instance force IsString Text

in your module. This is one of the main motivating examples for the proposal.