Quoth Sean Leather <leat...@cs.uu.nl>,
> Which one do you use for strings in HTML or XML in which UTF-8 has become
> the commonly accepted standard encoding? It's text, not binary, so I should
> choose Data.Text. But isn't there a performance penalty for translating from
> Data.Text's internal 16-bit encoding to UTF-8?
Use both?
I am not familiar with Text, but UTF-8 is pretty awkward, and I will
sure look into Text before wasting any time trying to fine-tune my
ByteString handling for UTF-8.
But in practice only a fraction of my data input will be manipulated
in an encoding-sensitive context. I'm thinking _all_ data is binary,
and accordingly all inputs are ByteString; conversion to Text will
happen as needed for ... uh, wait, is there a conversion from
ByteString to Text? Well, if not, no doubt that's coming.
Donn Cave, d...@avvanta.com
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