Re: Re[2]: [Haskell-cafe] UTF-16 to UTF-8

2010/1/28 Bulat Ziganshin

Hello Gunther,

Thursday, January 28, 2010, 4:07:07 PM, you wrote:

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thanks for the tip, but how do I use the library? I can't really make out how to feed it UTF-16 and get String (UTF-8) back.

Haskell String type isn't UTF-8 encoded. it's [Char] where Char is in UCS-4 aka UTF-32 :)

That's not quite correct. [Char] is a sequence of Unicode code points, UTF-32 is one possible encoding of those code points. The difference is similar to the one between an integer an e.g. its string representation. Cheers, Johan