[Haskell-i18n] unicode notation \uhhhh implementation

Nobuo Yamashita nobsun@sampou.org
Fri, 16 Aug 2002 11:15:16 +0900 (JST)


From: "Simon Marlow" <simonmar@microsoft.com>
Subject: RE: [Haskell-i18n] unicode notation \uhhhh implementation
Date: Thu, 15 Aug 2002 15:10:16 +0100

> I wasn't aware of that paragraph in the report until recently, 
> and as far as I know none of the current Haskell implementations
> implement the '\uhhhh' escape sequences.
> 
> One reason to use this approach would be if there already existed
> a preprocessor to do the job - does anyone know of one?  
> If not, I think the paragraph could be deleted in favour of using 
> appropriate encodings for source files (I'd planned to implement
> at least UTF-8 in GHC at some point).

This means that internally GHC will treat or represent 'Char' as 
32-bit integer ?

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