Ben Rudiak-Gould wrote: > >Char in Haskell represents a Unicode character. I don't know exactly > >what its size is, but it must be at least 16 bits and maybe more. > >String would then share those properties. > > > >However, usually I'm accustomed to dealing with data in 8-bit words. > >So I have some questions: > > Char and String handling in Haskell is deeply broken.
More accurately, string I/O (meaning all OS interfaces which take or return strings, not just reading/writing files) in Haskell is deeply broken. The Haskell functions accept or return Strings but interface to OS functions which (at least on Unix) deal with arrays of bytes (char*), and the encoding issues are essentially ignored. If you pass strings containing anything other than ISO-8859-1, you lose. -- Glynn Clements <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
