Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
> A question remained unanswered. The report requires Char to be exactly
> 16 bits. I loudly cry for letting it be >= 16 bits and <= Int, and
> implementing 31 or 32 in GHC. But there is a problem:
I think 31 bit Char should be considered for Haskell 2, but right now we're
stuck with 16 bits for Haskell98. I don't think 16 bits are that bad, most of
the characters you are likely to want to use are in plane 0 (with the possible
exception of Klingon :).
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-- Lennart
