[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Alex Queiroz]

Hallo,

On 7/10/07, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
>
> Last time I looked, everything treats "text" as being 8 bits per
> character. (Or, more commonly, 7, and if the MSB isn't 0, weird things
> happen...) That's why (for example) HTML has lots of weird constructs
> such as "&hellip;" in it, instead of just typing in the actual character
> you want. (And let's be clear here: SGML and all those decendents are
> all using "<" and ">" - the mathematical greater and less operations -
> when what they *really* mean are angle brackets, a quite distinct
> glyph.) Last time I checked, nobody was keen on using 64 bits per
> character...
>

     You must look out more. I use áéíóúç in web pages all the time.

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-alex
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