Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings and utf-8

allbery:

On Nov 26, 2007, at 19:23 , Maurí cio wrote:

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Are 'String's in GHC 6.6.1 UTF-8?

No.

type String = [Char]

and Char stores Unicode codepoints. However, the IO system truncates them to 8 bits. I think there are UTF8 marshaling libraries on hackage these days, though.

Yep, utf8string, in particular. -- Don