'\n' is not working in `print` for customized string literals

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For custom string literals, you get the raw string without processing of escape characters or interpolations. It’s up to you to implement those extra behaviors if desired:

julia> macro blah_str(str)
           for c in str
               println(repr(c))
           end
       end
@blah_str (macro with 1 method)

julia> blah"\n$x"
'\\'
'n'
'$'
'x'

Doing something like Meta.parse('"' * replace(str, '"' => "\\\"") * '"') inside the macro and processing the resulting string or AST can be a convenient way to recover the usual interpolation support.

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