"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> >> - 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
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