RE: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Simon Marlow
On 07 January 2005 12:30, Malcolm Wallace wrote: Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: Here's a summary of the state of Unicode support in GHC and other compilers. There are several aspects: - Can the Char type hold the full range of Unicode characters? This has been true in GHC

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Simon Marlow wrote: Many years ago, hbc claimed to be the only compiler with support for this. What encoding(s) did hbc allow in source files? The docs only mention unicode characters inside character string literals. The Java encoding, i.e., \u. -- Lennart

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Malcolm Wallace
Simon Marlow [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: - Can the Char type hold the full range of Unicode characters? This has been true in GHC for some time, and is now true in Hugs. I don't think it's true in nhc98 (please correct me if I'm wrong). You're wrong :-). nhc98 has always had

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Malcolm Wallace wrote: Lennart writes: What encoding(s) did hbc allow in source files? The docs only mention unicode characters inside character string literals. The Java encoding, i.e., \u. Well, in that case, nhc98 also supports Unicode in source files, identically to hbc. Well, you have