Re: [Haskell-cafe] Has character changed in GHC 6.8?

Ian Lynagh wrote:

Prelude Data.Char> map ord "ö" [195,182] Prelude Data.Char> length "ö" 2

there are actually 2 bytes there, but your terminal is showing them as one character.

So let's all switch to unicode ASAP and leave that horrible multi-byte-string-thing behind us? Cheers, Peter