Michael Nagel wrote:
I am using the precompiled windows version of ghc-6.4.2 and for some reason
Prelude> Char.isAlpha '§'
returns true. Hugs however, is of the opinion that the paragraph sign is
not an alphabetic character and so am I. I did not find any rationale
for this behavior (as no system I know of treats the §-sign as an
alphabetic char) so I think it is a bug and should be fixed.
Regards,
Michael
PS: I have not been using ghc(i) for too long, so if I missed something,
please let me know.
This looks like some kind of input problem: I get the same results as
you when using a Windows command shell, but not when using an xterm or
on Unix.
The problem is better illustrated like this:
Prelude> '§'
'\245'
but '\245' is not the § character, it is the õ character. So the
command shell has done some translation before GHCi even saw the character.
On Un*x, or in an xterm on Windows, I get
Prelude> '§'
'\167'
I claim this is not our bug. If anyone knows a workaround or can
explain why this happens, please let us know.
Cheers,
Simon
_______________________________________________
Glasgow-haskell-bugs mailing list
Glasgow-haskell-bugs@haskell.org
http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/glasgow-haskell-bugs
