On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 12:54, Ivan Lazar Miljenovic <ivan.miljenovic@gmail.com> wrote:
Tom Harper <rtomharper@gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/8/17 Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin@gmail.com>:
>> Hello Tom,
>
> <snip>
>
>> 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.


Unless a Char in Haskell is 32 bits (or at least more than 16 bits) it con NOT encode all Unicode points.

-Tako