[erlang-questions] How to get strings instead of ints out of this code?

[Jarrod Roberson]

Erlang (BEAM) emulator version 5.6 [smp:2] [async-threads:0]

Eshell V5.6  (abort with ^G)
1> [A,B|T] = "abcdefg".
"abcdefg"
2> A.
97
3> B.
98
4> T.
"cdefg"

I know _why_ A. and B. print out as ints and why T. prints out as a string
of characters, how do I get A and B to print out as characters?
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