Re: Character properties

From: Roozbeh Pournader (roozbeh@sina.sharif.ac.ir)
Date: Thu Sep 21 2000 - 16:25:24 EDT


On Thu, 21 Sep 2000, Marcin 'Qrczak' Kowalczyk wrote:

> isDigit intentionally recognizes ASCII digits only. IMHO it's more
> often needed and this is what the Haskell 98 Report says. (But I
> don't follow the report in some other cases.)

Would you please give me some URL? I disagree with the isDigit case,
simply because my main language, Persian, uses alternate digits when
written. And it's somehow important for my applications to detect numbers
entered in any shape, be it European, or Arabic-Indic.

--roozbeh



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