7 Jan
2005
7 Jan
'05
12:10 p.m.
"Simon Marlow"
- Can the Char type hold the full range of Unicode characters? This has been true in GHC for some time, and is now true in Hugs. I don't think it's true in nhc98 (please correct me if I'm wrong).
You're wrong :-). nhc98 has always had 32-bit characters internally.
I checked the nhc98 sources, and it seems that maxBound::Char is '\255'.
Yes, but nothing prevents you from creating a larger character by e.g. (toEnum 0x12345678) :: Char Lennart writes:
What encoding(s) did hbc allow in source files? The docs only mention unicode characters inside character & string literals.
The Java encoding, i.e., \uXXXX.
Well, in that case, nhc98 also supports Unicode in source files, identically to hbc. Regards, Malcolm