Stefan O'Rear: > Char is just a code point. It's a 32 bit integer (64 on 64-bit > platforms due to infelicities in the GHC backend) with a code point. > [...] > The GHC IO functions truncate down to 8 bits. There is no way in GHC to > read or write full UTF-8, short of doing the encoding yourself (google > for UTF8.lhs).
Thanks, this makes things clear to me. > [Char] is a linked list of pointers to heap-allocated fullword > integers, 20 (40) bytes per character (assuming non-latin1). Hey, I love ByteStrings! ;-) Malte _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
