-----Original Message----- From: Martin Norbäck [mailto:d95mback@dtek.chalmers.se] Sent: 15 August 2002 14:40 To: haskell-i18n@haskell.org Subject: [Haskell-i18n] unicode notation \uhhhh implementation
Does anyone know the status of the implementation of unicode escape sequences \uhhhh as per 2.1 in the Haskell 98 standard?
When implemented, do the count as one or five characters.
Or, is UTF-8 (or locale specified encoding) to be used for Haskell source code? If yes, when?
I wasn't aware of that paragraph in the report until recently, and as far as I know none of the current Haskell implementations implement the '\uhhhh' escape sequences. One reason to use this approach would be if there already existed a preprocessor to do the job - does anyone know of one? If not, I think the paragraph could be deleted in favour of using appropriate encodings for source files (I'd planned to implement at least UTF-8 in GHC at some point). Cheers, Simon