String != [Char]
Colin Paul Adams
colin at colina.demon.co.uk
Sun Apr 1 08:49:11 CEST 2012
>>>>> "Gabriel" == Gabriel Dos Reis <gdr at integrable-solutions.net> writes:
Gabriel> On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 5:08 AM, Christian Siefkes
Gabriel> It is not the precision of Char or char that is the issue
Gabriel> here. It has been clarified at several points that Char is
Gabriel> not a Unicode character, but a Unicode code point.
That's not what the standard says:
6.1.2 Characters and Strings
The character type Char is an enumeration whose values represent Unicode
characters [2].
[2] Unicode Consortium. Unicode
standard. http://unicode.org/standard/standard.html.
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