[Haskell-cafe] Strings and utf-8

[Brandon S. Allbery KF8NH]

On Nov 26, 2007, at 19:23 , Maurí cio wrote:

> Are 'String's in GHC 6.6.1 UTF-8?

No.

type String = [Char]

and Char stores Unicode codepoints.  However, the IO system truncates  
them to 8 bits.  I think there are UTF8 marshaling libraries on  
hackage these days, though.

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