In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Simply claiming that values of type Char are Unicode characters > doesn't make it so. Actually, that's exactly what makes it so. And in article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Unless I'm missing something, the only "support" that GHC provides is > that Char is 4 bytes. No, on GHC a Char is a Unicode codepoint, which means it has only 17*2^16 possible values. This by itself is the most important aspect of Unicode support. But most of the rest is missing. > If you use Char to store anything other than ISO > Latin-1 characters, none of the Haskell functions with Char in their > signature will be of any use. Actually, many of those functions ought to use Word8 instead. -- Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA _______________________________________________ Haskell mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell
