String != [Char]

[Christian Siefkes]

On 03/19/2012 04:53 PM, Johan Tibell wrote:
> I've been thinking about this question as well. How about
> 
> class IsString s where
>     unpackCString :: Ptr Word8 -> CSize -> s

What's the Ptr Word8 supposed to contain? A UTF-8 encoded string?

Best regards
	Christian

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