[Haskell-cafe] Type system madness

[Andrew Coppin]

Stefan O'Rear wrote:
> 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;
>   

Does that actually match *any* known encoding? (I'm no Unicode expert, 
but I thought that 0 - 127 matches ASCII, but the rest is Unicode-specific?)