Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Malcolm Wallace wrote: Lennart writes: What encoding(s) did hbc allow in source files? The docs only mention unicode characters inside character & string literals. The Java encoding, i.e., \u. Well, in that case, nhc98 also supports Unicode in source files, identically to hbc. Well, you have

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Malcolm Wallace
"Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> - Can the Char type hold the full range of Unicode characters? > >>This has been true in GHC for some time, and is now true in Hugs. > >>I don't think it's true in nhc98 (please correct me if I'm wrong). > > > > You're wrong :-). nhc98 has

Re: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Lennart Augustsson
Simon Marlow wrote: Many years ago, hbc claimed to be the only compiler with support for this. What encoding(s) did hbc allow in source files? The docs only mention unicode characters inside character & string literals. The Java encoding, i.e., \u. -- Lennart

RE: [Haskell-cafe] Hugs vs GHC (again) was: Re: Some randomnewbiequestions

2005-01-07 Thread Simon Marlow
On 07 January 2005 12:30, Malcolm Wallace wrote: > "Simon Marlow" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > >> Here's a summary of the state of Unicode support in GHC and other >> compilers. There are several aspects: >> >> - Can the Char type hold the full range of Unicode characters? >>This has been