Ben Rudiak-Gould <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I don't like the idea of using U+, because it looks like an ASCII
> control character, and in any case has a long tradition of being used
> for something else. Why not use a code point that can't result from
> decoding a valid UTF-8 string? U+
Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:
Encouraged by Mono, for my language Kogut I adopted a hack that
Unicode people hate: the possibility to use a modified UTF-8 variant
where byte sequences which are illegal in UTF-8 are decoded into
U+ followed by another character.
I don't like the idea of u
Axel Simon <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The solution of representing a file name abstractly is also used by
> the Java libraries.
I think it is not. Besides using Java UTF-16 strings for filenames,
there is the File class, but it also uses Java strings. The
documentation of listFiles() says that
On 2006-02-03, Ross Paterson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:24:28PM +, Axel Simon wrote:
>> Yes, and I suppose not being opaque about a file name (i.e. FilePath =
>> [Word8]) is superior.
>
> Maybe. You might want [Word8] under Unix and [Word16] under Win32.
Right. I
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:24:28PM +, Axel Simon wrote:
> Yes, and I suppose not being opaque about a file name (i.e. FilePath =
> [Word8]) is superior.
Maybe. You might want [Word8] under Unix and [Word16] under Win32.
> So why is the whole Unicode proposal under "adopt: none"? Did nobody
>
On Fri, 2006-02-03 at 12:13 +, Ross Paterson wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:06:28PM +, Axel Simon wrote:
> > I think this is not yet discussed on the wiki:
> >
> > [FilePath as String or ADT]
>
> The issue (and the related one with program arguments and environment
> variables) is men
On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 12:06:28PM +, Axel Simon wrote:
> I think this is not yet discussed on the wiki:
>
> [FilePath as String or ADT]
The issue (and the related one with program arguments and environment
variables) is mentioned under CharAsUnicode.
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I think this is not yet discussed on the wiki:
>From the recent post to the Haskell list:
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