Re: [Haskell-cafe] Character encoding?

26 Dec 2010

      Your explanation sounds a bit like string theory.  ;-)

Thanks,

Michael

--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Lars Viklund  wrote:

From: Lars Viklund 
Subject: Re: [Haskell-cafe] Character encoding?
To: haskell-cafe@haskell.org
Date: Sunday, December 26, 2010, 11:09 AM

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 08:04:41AM -0800, michael rice wrote:
...
How are characters encoded?
A Char is a type that holds a single Unicode codepoint from one of the
17 planes. As a codepoint is just a number without any defined
representation, it doesn't have an 'encoding'.

-- 
Lars Viklund | zao@acc.umu.se

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