Your explanation sounds a bit like string theory. ;-)
Thanks,
Michael
--- On Sun, 12/26/10, Lars Viklund <zao@acc.umu.se> wrote:
From: Lars Viklund <zao@acc.umu.se> 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'.