> Am I wrong to think that UTF8 should be THE > standard? I believe it can encode anything > encoded by other encodings.
All the UTF-* encodings can encode the same code points. There are different trade offs though. > Can't we consider non-utf8 text as "legacy"? > I don't like that word, but I do think it is > the right way to go for text. If you know > your text has a diferent encoding, just use > 'iconv' to convert it, or a special Haskell > library for conversion. The important thing (I think) is to have an abstract concept that encompasses all the necessary characters (i.e. Unicode) and then a few well specified encodings with different trade offs. A Unicode Haskell library should handle at least a few of them (and more importantly keep track of the encoding.) -- Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
