mips trying to write a method to check if a string is equal to a new line '\n' so i do is_nl: li $v0, 0 beq $a0, '\n', is_nl jr $ra is_nl: li $v0, 1 jr $ra but when i test it, it doesnot work, this is...

mips trying to write a method to check if a string is equal to a new line '\n' so i do is_nl: li $v0, 0 beq $a0, '\n', is_nl jr $ra is_nl: li $v0, 1 jr $ra but when i test it, it doesnot work, this is what my main looks like .data letter: .asciiz "\n" .globl main .text main: la $a0, letter jal is_whitespace move $t1,$v0 li $v0, 10 syscall if i do lh in the method it will work, but why wont lw work? what is the string is '\nq'