[Haskell-cafe] Re: Type system madness

[Aaron Denney]

On 2007-07-14, Andrew Coppin <andrewcoppin at btinternet.com> wrote:
> 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?)

Latin-1, AKA ISO-8859-1.

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Aaron Denney
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