[Haskell-cafe] Character encoding?

How are characters encoded? *Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (mkStdGen 0) :: (Char,StdGen) ('\64685',40014 40692) *Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (snd it) :: (Char,StdGen) ('\1052295',1601120196 1655838864) *Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (snd it) :: (Char,StdGen) ('\639025',1346387765 2103410263) *Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (snd it) :: (Char,StdGen) ('\625672',439883729 1872071452) Michael