On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 13:29, Ketil Malde <ke...@malde.org> wrote: > Tako Schotanus <t...@codejive.org> writes: > > >> Just like Char is capable of encoding any valid Unicode codepoint. > > > Unless a Char in Haskell is 32 bits (or at least more than 16 bits) it > con > > NOT encode all Unicode points. > > And since it can encode (or rather, represent) any valid Unicode > codepoint, it follows that it is 32 bits (and at least more than 16 > bits). > > :-) > > (Char is basically a 32bit value, limited valid Unicode code points, so > it corresponds to UCS-4/UTF-32.) > > Yeah, I tried looking it up but I could find the technical definition for Char, but in the end I found that "maxBound" was "0x10FFFF" making it basically 24 bits :)
I know for example that Java uses only 16 bits for its Chars and therefore can NOT give you all Unicode code points with a single Char, with Strings you can because of the extension points. -Tako
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