Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:

Tom Harper writes:

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2010/8/17 Bulat Ziganshin :

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Hello Tom, <snip>

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i don't understand what you mean. are you support all 2^20 codepoints in Data.Text package? Bulat,

Yes, its internal representation is UTF-16, which is capable of encoding *any* valid Unicode codepoint.

Just like Char is capable of encoding any valid Unicode codepoint.

Char is not an encoding, right?