Re: [Haskell-cafe] Strings and utf-8

On Nov 26, 2007, at 19:23 , Maurí cio wrote:

Are 'String's in GHC 6.6.1 UTF-8?

No. type String = [Char] and Char stores Unicode codepoints. However, the IO system truncates them to 8 bits. I think there are UTF8 marshaling libraries on hackage these days, though. -- brandon s. allbery [solaris,freebsd,perl,pugs,haskell] allbery@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allbery@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH