Alex unicode trick

[Simon Marlow]

On 07/01/2014 18:18, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:

> Ah, I think I understand now. If this is the case, at least the
> ‘alexGetChar’ could be removed, right? Is Alex 2.x compatibility
> necessary for any reason whatsoever?

Yes, the backwards compatibility could be removed now that we require a 
very recent version of Alex.

Cheers,
	Simon