[Haskell-cafe] gbp sign showing as unknown character by GHC

[Stuart Cook]

On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Colin Paul
Adams<colin at colina.demon.co.uk> wrote:
> But how do you get Latin-1 bytes from a Unicode string? This would
> need a transcoding process.

The first 256 code-points of Unicode coincide with Latin-1. Therefore,
if you truncate Unicode characters down to 8 bits you'll effectively
end up with Latin-1 text (except that any code points above U+00FF
will give strange results).

If your terminal then interprets these bytes as UTF-8 (or anything
else, really), the result will be gibberish or worse.


Stuart