[Haskell-i18n] unicode notation \uhhhh implementation

[Ashley Yakeley]

At 2002-08-15 10:02, Sven Moritz Hallberg wrote:

>What reason would one have to use Unicode characters outside of string
>and character literals? The only one I could see would be to have
>prettier code. I'm personally itching for real greek letters in my code,
>even if only a handful of other people could read the file, ATM.
>
>But what's the point of it if you can't deal with the characters
>yourself, having to use escape sequences. The compiler surely couldn't
>care less about it.

Well, if we want to go the Java route and allow full Unicode in 
identifiers, it would allow developer A to export Haskell identifiers 
with Greek characters from a Greek charset source file, and developer B 
to use those identifiers from an ASCII source file.

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Ashley Yakeley, Seattle WA