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

Unicode again

2002-01-08 Thread Wolfgang Jeltsch
Hello, 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. Is ther