Discussion on: Write a script to identify an anagram

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I stick with mappings to prime numbers. Haskell, without considerations of performance:

import Data.Char(toLower)
import Data.List(lookup)

primes = sieve [2..]
  where sieve (p:xs) = p : sieve [x | x <- xs, x `mod` p /= 0]

charToPrime c = lookup c $ zip ['a'..'z'] primes

eval word = product <$> sequence (map (charToPrime . toLower) word)

isAnagram word1 word2 = eval word1 == eval word2

lookup and charToPrime return a Maybe value, without catching the eye. Umlauts or digits result in a Nothing value for the character and in a product of 1 for the word. The handling of those cases could be improved.