[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Stefan O'Rear]

On Fri, Jul 13, 2007 at 06:45:03PM -0400, Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH wrote:
>
> On Jul 13, 2007, at 15:11 , Stefan O'Rear wrote:
>
>> There is no such thing as 8-bit ASCII - base assumes files contain
>> ISO-8859-1.
>
> Hm, shouldn't it really be ISO-8859-15?  (The difference being that -1 
> predates the euro symbol.)

Base assumes that bytes 0-255 correspond to Unicode codepoints 0-255;
according to gucharmap, the Euro sign is 0x20AC.

<< € >> U+20AC EURO SIGN

Stefan
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