On Jan 23, 2008 11:56 AM, Jules Bean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Peter Verswyvelen wrote: > > > Now I'm getting a bit confused here. To summarize, what encoding does > > GHC 6.8.2 use for [Char]? UCS-32? > > [snip] > > What *does* matter to the programmer is what encodings putStr and > getLine use. AFAIK, they use "lower 8 bits of unicode code point" which > is almost functionally equivalent to latin-1.
Which is terrible! You should have to be explicit about what encoding you expect. Python 3000 does it right. -- Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
