[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Miguel Mitrofanov]

Ivan Lazar Miljenovic wrote:
> 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.
> 

Char is not an encoding, right?