Unicode support

[Hamilton Richards]

At 12:20 PM -0500 9/29/01, Colin Paul Adams wrote:
>I have just been reading through the Haskell report to refresh my
>memory of the language. I was surprised to see this:
>
>The character type Char is an enumeration and consists of 16 bit values,
>conforming to
>the Unicode standard [10].
>
>Unicode uses 24-bit values to identify characters.


According to the official Unicode web site [0],

	The Unicode Standard defines three encoding forms
	that allow the same data to be transmitted in a byte,
	word or double word oriented format (i.e. in 8, 16 or
	32-bits per code unit).


[0] http://www.unicode.org/unicode/standard/principles.html




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