Re: Unicode in GHC: need some advice on building

--- Dimitry Golubovsky wrote:

Hi,

Following up the discussion in Haskell-Cafe about ways to bring better Unicode support in GHC.

A radical suggestion from an earlier discussion was to make String a typeclass. Have unicode, ascii, etc. all be representations. The question that this brings up is does it require a change from the Haskell language standard? The trickle down implications from String into Char and potentially List might have too high an impact for this approach. Personally I think it's something that should be considered in the long run. Shawn Garbett __________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Read only the mail you want - Yahoo! Mail SpamGuard. http://promotions.yahoo.com/new_mail