In message <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Tony Finch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Ross Paterson wrote: > > > > Combining characters are not an issue here, just the surrogate pairs, > > because we're discussing representations of sequences of Chars (Unicode > > code points). > > I dislike referring to unicode code points as "characters" because that > tends to imply a lot of invalid simplifications.
Just to be pedantic, Ross did say Char not character. A Char is defined in the Haskell report as a Unicode code point. As you say, that does not directly correspond to what many people think of as a character due to combining characters etc. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
