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

On Tue, Jan 22, 2008 at 03:16:15PM +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

On 1/22/08, Duncan Coutts wrote:

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On Tue, 2008-01-22 at 09:29 +0000, Magnus Therning wrote:

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I vaguely remember that in GHC 6.6 code like this

length $ map ord "a string"

being able able to generate a different answer than

length "a string"

That seems unlikely.

Unlikely yes, yet I get the following in GHCi (ghc 6.6.1, the version currently in Debian Sid):

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map ord "a" [97] map ord "ö" [195,182]

In 6.6.1: Prelude Data.Char> map ord "ö" [195,182] Prelude Data.Char> length "ö" 2 there are actually 2 bytes there, but your terminal is showing them as one character. Thanks Ian