Am Freitag, 28. November 2003 22:21 schrieb Glynn Clements:
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What do you mean with this? Hopefully, not dropping Unicode support because this would be a very bad idea, IMHO.
What Unicode support?
Simply claiming that values of type Char are Unicode characters doesn't make it so.
You have the possibility to store Unicode codepoints as values of type Char in GHC. This is a a little Unicode support which you don't have with 8-bit chars.
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Right now, values of type Char are, in reality, ISO Latin-1 codepoints padded out to 4 bytes per char.
No, because this would mean that you wouldn't have chars with codes greater than 255 which is not the case with GHC.
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But, of course, I agree with you that currently the main part of Unicode support is missing. Wolfgang