ANN: H98 FFI Addendum 1.0, Release Candidate 13

[Manuel M T Chakravarty]

Ross Paterson <ross at soi.city.ac.uk> wrote,

> In the sentence
> 
> 	The marshalling takes the current Unicode encoding on the
> 	Haskell side into account.
> 
> (which seems to have been there before), "current" seems wrong, since
> the Haskell side is constant.  How about something like
> 
> 	The marshalling converts each Haskell character, representing
> 	a Unicode code point, to one or more bytes in a manner
> 	determined by the current locale.
> 
> and dropping the later sentence about the locale.

Done.

> It might be worth emphasizing that the Len is the number of bytes
> rather than Chars.

Done.

> In the part about the single-byte versions, it might be worth tightening
> the warning to say that these preserve only the first 256 values of Char.

Ok.

> (That is the Latin-1 subset, so calling them ASCII seems a misnomer.)

Yes, but we can't call it Latin-1 either, because that
implies a locale (there is also Latin-2 etc).

Manuel