As the maintainer of Haskell.org, I regret that some of the sections
there are out of date or missing. I will fix the nhc links up a
little but I don't have time at the moment to work very hard on the
bookshelf. However, this web page is not a personal project of mine
but rather an effort by the larger Haskell community. I am happy to
incorporate anyones material on haskell.org. People can send me links
or entire web pages and I will add them in. Maybe some of the other
Haskell developers help with the bookshelf and some of the other
missing pieces. I would be especially interested in contributions
and comments from newcomers!
As to the topics of binary IO, Unicode, and the Haskell report: while
nobody has had the energy to really work the Unicode stuff into an
implementation, the purpose of putting it into the report is to
indicate our intention to do this in the future. In particular, you
cannot depend on an 8 bit Char datatype. Binary IO should be
addressed in the library report but that, at the moment, seems to be
stalled due to the lack of an editor. Reading and writing 8 bit bytes
is supported in Hugs, though.
John
