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

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"Johan" == Johan Tibell writes:

Johan> On Tue, Aug 17, 2010 at 1:36 PM, Tako Schotanus wrote: Johan> Yeah, I tried looking it up but I could find the Johan> technical definition for Char, but in the end I found that Johan> "maxBound" was "0x10FFFF" making it basically 24 bits :) Johan> I think that's enough to represent all the assigned Unicode Johan> code points. I also think the Unicode consortium (or whatever Johan> it is called) made some statement about the maximum number of Johan> bits they'll ever use. Yes. And UTF-16 is only capable of dealing with codepoints up to this limit. -- Colin Adams Preston Lancashire () ascii ribbon campaign - against html e-mail /\ www.asciiribbon.org - against proprietary attachments