[Haskell-cafe] Has character changed in GHC 6.8?

[Peter Verswyvelen]

Ketil Malde wrote:
>> So let's all switch to unicode ASAP and leave that horrible
>> multi-byte-string-thing behind us?
>>     
>
> You are being ironic, I take it?
>   
No I just used wrong terminology. When I said unicode, I actually meant 
UCS-x, and with multi-byte-string-thing I meant VARIABLE-length, sorry 
about that. I find variable length chars so much harder to use and 
reason about than the fixed length characters. UTF-x is a form of 
compression, which is understandable, but it is IMHO a burden (since it 
does not allow random access to the n-th character)

Now I'm getting a bit confused here. To summarize, what encoding does 
GHC 6.8.2 use for [Char]? UCS-32?

BTW: According the Wikipedia, UCS-4 and UTF-32 are functionally equivalent.

Cheers,
Peter

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