hbc

[Sven Panne]

Patrik Jansson wrote:
> [...]
> One notable feature in hbc still missing in ghc is Unicode support (hbc
> has supported Unicode from early on). I hope ghc will follow up the recent
> change to Unicode-sized Chars with some library support soon. [...]

*ahem* Just to get rumours correct: Starting from 5.00, GHC  *has* Unicode
support (Char is even 31bits now), and there is some library support, too,
but Marcin should better comment on the latter...

Cheers,
   S.