On Thu, Aug 20, 2009 at 4:28 PM, Colin Paul Adams<co...@colina.demon.co.uk> wrote: > But how do you get Latin-1 bytes from a Unicode string? This would > need a transcoding process.
The first 256 code-points of Unicode coincide with Latin-1. Therefore, if you truncate Unicode characters down to 8 bits you'll effectively end up with Latin-1 text (except that any code points above U+00FF will give strange results). If your terminal then interprets these bytes as UTF-8 (or anything else, really), the result will be gibberish or worse. Stuart _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
