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

On Jan 23, 2008 2:11 PM, Magnus Therning wrote:

Yes, this reflects my recent experience, Char is not a good representation for an 8-bit byte. This thread came out of my attempt to add a module to dataenc[1] that would make base64-string[2] obsolete. As you probably can guess I came to the conclusion that a function for data encoding with type 'String -> String' is plain wrong. :-)

Yes. Functions that deal with bytes shouldn't use Char. Char should be seen as and ADT representing Unicode code points. It has nothing to do with bytes. -- Johan