A 'Char' in Haskell represents a single Unicode code point.

On Sun, Dec 26, 2010 at 10:04 AM, michael rice <nowgate@yahoo.com> wrote:
How are characters encoded?

*Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (mkStdGen 0) :: (Char,StdGen)
('\64685',40014 40692)
*Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (snd it) :: (Char,StdGen)
('\1052295',1601120196 1655838864)
*Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (snd it) :: (Char,StdGen)
('\639025',1346387765 2103410263)
*Main System.Random Control.Monad.State.Lazy> random (snd it) :: (Char,StdGen)
('\625672',439883729 1872071452)

Michael


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