Hi David Leimbach wrote: > > > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> > wrote: > On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Johann Höchtl > <johann.hoec...@gmail.com> wrote: > > My question or discussion point: Why not depreciate [Char] > altogether > > and favour of lazy Bytestrings? > > > A sequence of bytes is not the same thing as a sequence of > Unicode > code points. If you want to replace String by something more > efficient > have a look at Data.Text. > > > Slight correction. > > > A sequence of bytes is exactly the same thing as a sequence of Unicode > bytes when you use UTF8.
And a sequence of bytes is exactly the same thing as a UTF-32 string, when the sequence is encoded as UTF-32. But that is not the point. The point is that when some function is handed a ByteString, the ByteString can be encoded in many ways. It do not even have to be text. So you need a UTF-8 String type. /Mads > > > > > -- Johan > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe > > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-Cafe mailing list > Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
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