-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On 8/14/10 01:29 , Kevin Jardine wrote: > I think that this kind of programming detail should be handled > internally (even if necessary by switching automatically from UTF-8 to > UTF-16 depending upon the language).
This is going to carry a heavy speed penalty. > I'm using Haskell so that I can write high level code. In my view I > should not have to care if the people using my application write in > Farsi, Quechua or Tamil. Ideally yes, but arguably the existing Unicode representations don't allow this to be done nicely. (Of course, arguably there is no "nice" way to do it; UTF-16 is the best you can do as a workable generic setting.) - -- brandon s. allbery [linux,solaris,freebsd,perl] allb...@kf8nh.com system administrator [openafs,heimdal,too many hats] allb...@ece.cmu.edu electrical and computer engineering, carnegie mellon university KF8NH -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v2.0.10 (Darwin) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAkxmqaEACgkQIn7hlCsL25WmOQCfYEjkem99o5IpwxnD7bNaDYyG 768AoK17I605DqDxIdnFUE7MK2ktMtrN =lOPK -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
