hunk ./GHC/Types.hs 29 +{-| The character type 'Char' is an enumeration whose values represent +Unicode (or equivalently ISO\/IEC 10646) characters +(see for details). +This set extends the ISO 8859-1 (Latin-1) character set +(the first 256 charachers), which is itself an extension of the ASCII +character set (the first 128 characters). +A character literal in Haskell has type 'Char'. + +To convert a 'Char' to or from the corresponding 'Int' value defined +by Unicode, use 'Prelude.toEnum' and 'Prelude.fromEnum' from the +'Prelude.Enum' class respectively (or equivalently 'ord' and 'chr'). +-}