RE: Unicode again

2002-01-17 Thread Simon Peyton-Jones
| there was some discussion about Unicode and the Char type | some time ago. At the moment I'm writing some Haskell code | dealing with XML. The problem is that there seems to be no | consensus concerning Char so that it is difficult for me to | deal with the XML unicode issues appropriately.

RE: Unicode again

2002-01-16 Thread Kent Karlsson
This is getting a bit off-topic for Haskell... > Isn't it fairly common to use 32bit Unicode character types in C? Yes, in some implementations, but nobody by a few Linux and SunOS programmers use that... (Those systems are far from committed to Unicode.) In some other systems wchar_t is (exc

Re: Unicode again

2002-01-16 Thread Ketil's local user
"Kent Karlsson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Everyone that is serious about Unicode and where efficiency > is also of concern(!) target UTF-16 (MacOS, Windows, Epoc, Java, > Oracle, ...). Isn't it fairly common to use 32bit Unicode character types in C? I'm not sure I see the efficiency gain

RE: Unicode again

2002-01-15 Thread Kent Karlsson
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On > Behalf Of Wolfgang Jeltsch > Sent: den 5 januari 2002 13:04 > To: The Haskell Mailing List > Subject: Unicode again > > > Hello, > there was some discussion about Unicode and the Char type > some time ago. A