[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Tom Harper <rtomharper at gmail.com> writes:

> 2010/8/17 Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com>:
>> Hello Tom,
>
> <snip>
>
>> i don't understand what you mean. are you support all 2^20 codepoints
>> in Data.Text package?
>
> Bulat,
>
> Yes, its internal representation is UTF-16, which is capable of
> encoding *any* valid Unicode codepoint.

Just like Char is capable of encoding any valid Unicode codepoint.

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