I vaguely remember that in GHC 6.6 code like this length $ map ord "a string" being able able to generate a different answer than length "a string" At the time I thought that the encoding (in my case UTF-8) was “leaking through”. After switching to GHC 6.8 the behaviour seems to have changed, and mapping 'ord' on a string results in a list of ints representing the Unicode code point rather than the encoding:
map ord "åäö" [229,228,246]
Is this the case, or is there something strange going on with character encodings? I was hoping that this would mean that 'chr . ord' would basically be a no-op, but no such luck:
chr . ord $ 'å' '\229'
What would I have to do to get an 'å' from '229'? /M -- Magnus Therning (OpenPGP: 0xAB4DFBA4) magnus＠therning．org Jabber: magnus．therning＠gmail．com http://therning.org/magnus What if I don't want to obey the laws? Do they throw me in jail with the other bad monads? -- Daveman