[m-dev.] Character type class

Michael Day mcda at cat.cs.mu.OZ.AU
Wed Jan 26 16:38:19 AEDT 2000


What do people want to see in a character type class?

Issues:

	- translating between character encodings
	- comparisons and orderings with respect to locale
	- representing as list of bytes

Will Mercury ever have a "byte" type? Is such a beast necessary?

Michael

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