"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote,
> It is true that strictly speaking we don't need to say anything here.
> But I think it would be helpful to include a footnote as a guide to
> implementors, something along the lines of
>
> [1] Note that if the platform defines __STDC_ISO_10646__ then wchar_t
> characters are Unicode code points, and thus the conversion between
> Haskell Char and CWChar is a simple cast. On other platforms, the
> translation is locale-dependent just as for CChar.
>
> And the paragraph in question could be just
>
> The module \code{CString} also exports a
> variant of the above string marshalling routines for wide
> characters, i.e. the C \code{wchar_t} type[1].
Ok. That's what's going to be in RC16.
Cheers,
Manuel
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