Re: [Haskell-cafe] Has character changed in GHC 6.8?

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Ian Lynagh wrote:
Prelude Data.Char> map ord "ö"
[195,182]
Prelude Data.Char> length "ö"
2
there are actually 2 bytes there, but your terminal is showing them as
one character.
  
So let's all switch to unicode ASAP and leave that horrible 
multi-byte-string-thing behind us?

Cheers,
Peter




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