Re: What is a punctuation character?

2012-03-19 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Iavor report? My understanding is that the intention is that the Iavor alphabet is unicode codepoints (sometimes referred to as Iavor unicode characters). Unicode characters are not the same as Unicode codepoints. What we want is Unicode characters. We don't want to be able to

Re: [Colin Paul Adams] Re: Proposal: Define UTF-8 to be the encoding of Haskell source files

2011-04-07 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Roel == Roel van Dijk vandijk.r...@gmail.com writes: Roel On 6 April 2011 20:42, Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Roel It seems you have a problem with the word allowed. What do Roel you think of the interoperability guidelines as proposed by Roel Duncan

[Colin Paul Adams] Re: Proposal: Define UTF-8 to be the encoding of Haskell source files

2011-04-06 Thread Colin Paul Adams
I forgot to CC the list: Roel == Roel van Dijk vandijk.r...@gmail.com writes: Roel I propose to make UTF-8 the only allowed encoding for Haskell Roel source files. Implementations must discard an initial Byte Roel Order Mark (BOM) if present [3]. Roel * Pros - Ensures that

Re: [Colin Paul Adams] Re: Proposal: Define UTF-8 to be the encoding of Haskell source files

2011-04-06 Thread Colin Paul Adams
Bas == Bas van Dijk v.dijk@gmail.com writes: Bas On 6 April 2011 17:34, Colin Paul Adams co...@colina.demon.co.uk wrote: Allowed? Allowed for what? Bas Allowed to be called a Haskell file. Well, what the report says on that is irrelevant. If I see a file containing Haskell