Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

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"Ivan" == Ivan Lazar Miljenovic writes:

Char is not an encoding, right?

Ivan> No, but in GHC at least it corresponds to a Unicode codepoint. I don't think this is right, or shouldn't be right, anyway.. Surely it stands for a character. Unicode codepoints include non-characters such as the surrogate codepoints used by UTF-16 to map non-BMP codepoints to pairs of 16-bit codepoints. I don't think you ought to be able to see a surrogate codepoint as a Char. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments