8 Jul
2007
8 Jul
'07
10:38 a.m.
Tillmann Rendel:
As I understand it (wich may or may not be correct):
A normal Haskell string is basically [Word8]
Hm, let's see whether I understand it better or worse. Actually it is [Char], and Char is a Unicode code point in the range 0..1114111 (at least in GHC). Compare: Prelude Data.Word> fromEnum (maxBound :: Char) 1114111 Prelude Data.Word> fromEnum (maxBound :: Word8) 255 So it seems that the Char type abstracts the encoding away. I'm actually a little confused by this, because I haven't found any means to make the I/O functions of the Prelude (getContents etc.) encoding-aware: The string "รค", when read from a UTF-8-encoded file via readFile, has a length of 2. Anyone with a URI to enlighten me? Malte