On 9/26/07, Aaron Denney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 2007-09-26, Johan Tibell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > If UTF-16 is what's used by everyone else (how about Java? Python?) I > > think that's a strong reason to use it. I don't know Unicode well > > enough to say otherwise. > > The internal representations don't matter except in the case of making > FFI linkages. The external representations do, and UTF-8 has won on > that front.
It could matter for performance. However, you can encode your UnicodeString into any external representation you want for your I/O needs, including UTF-8. _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list [email protected] http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
