Ketil Malde wrote:
So let's all switch to unicode ASAP and leave that horrible
multi-byte-string-thing behind us?
You are being ironic, I take it?
No I just used wrong terminology. When I said unicode, I actually meant
UCS-x, and with multi-byte-string-thing I meant VARIABLE-length, sorry
about that. I find variable length chars so much harder to use and
reason about than the fixed length characters. UTF-x is a form of
compression, which is understandable, but it is IMHO a burden (since it
does not allow random access to the n-th character)
Now I'm getting a bit confused here. To summarize, what encoding does
GHC 6.8.2 use for [Char]? UCS-32?
BTW: According the Wikipedia, UCS-4 and UTF-32 are functionally equivalent.
Cheers,
Peter
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