On Mon, 27 Mar 2000, Sven Panne wrote:
[snip]
> Haskell type | C type | ... is probably | Range
> -------------+--------------+-----------------+---------------------------
> Char | HsChar | char (1) | HsCharMin .. HsCharMax
[snip]
> Remarks:
> ========
> 1) Although the Haskell 98 report states that Char should be a Unicode
> character, a plain char is used here. No implementation uses Unicode so
> far, and char is what one wants most of the time, anyway.
>
>From http://www.cs.chalmers.se/~augustss/hbc/lexemes.html:
Character and string literals may contain Unicode characters.
and
Although hbc handles 16 bit characters correctly within a program the I/O
libraries are still 8 bit oriented.
The Unicode module contains functions to encode and decode various
Unicode formats.
I haven't looked at that Unicode module yet, though.
Bye, Jan de Wit
