On Nov 26, 2007, at 19:23 , Maurí cio wrote:
Are 'String's in GHC 6.6.1 UTF-8?
No.
type String = [Char]
and Char stores Unicode codepoints. However, the IO system truncates
them to 8 bits. I think there are UTF8 marshaling libraries on
hackage these days, though.
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