Re: another unicode bug

Antonio Regidor GarcĂ­a <[email protected]> Thu, 30 Sep 2004 13:52:47 +0200 (CEST)
Newsgroups gmane.comp.lang.haskell.nhc.bugs
Message-ID <[email protected]>
Thanks, I will look at the nhc code and try to implement it (slowly,
anyway...). Regards.

Antonio Regidor Garc=EDa

> The Haskell'98 Report says:
>=20
>     Haskell uses the Unicode [11] character set. However, source
>     programs are currently biased toward the ASCII character set used
>     in earlier versions of Haskell.
>=20
> I'm afraid it is still true that all the compiler implementations
> accept only 8-bit characters in source files.  You can notate a
> larger
> character with a hex escape e.g. '\x10d5', but often this is
> truncated
> to the lower 8-bits on output.
>=20
> The use of Unicode in Haskell remains a hope, not a reality.
>=20
> Regards,
>     Malcolm


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