Tillmann Rendel:
> As I understand it (wich may or may not be correct):
>
> A normal Haskell string is basically [Word8]
Hm, let's see whether I understand it better or worse. Actually it is
[Char], and Char is a Unicode code point in the range 0..1114111 (at
least in GHC). Compare:
Prelude Data.Word> fromEnum (maxBound :: Char)
1114111
Prelude Data.Word> fromEnum (maxBound :: Word8)
255
So it seems that the Char type abstracts the encoding away. I'm
actually a little confused by this, because I haven't found any means to
make the I/O functions of the Prelude (getContents etc.) encoding-aware:
The string "รค", when read from a UTF-8-encoded file via readFile, has a
length of 2. Anyone with a URI to enlighten me?
Malte
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