I have just been reading through the Haskell report to refresh my
memory of the language. I was surprised to see this:

The character type Char is an enumeration and consists of 16 bit values, conforming to
the Unicode standard [10].

Unicode uses 24-bit values to identify characters.
-- 
Colin Paul Adams
Preston Lancashire

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