On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:20:45AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wall...@me.com> > wrote: > >> In the region of this side of the Atlantic Ocean where I teach, the > >> student population is very diverse > > > > Prelude> putStrLn (take 5 "Fröhßen") > > Fröhß > > ghci> putStrLn "Fro\x0308hßen" > Fröhßen > ghci> putStrLn (take 5 "Fro\x0308hßen") > Fröh > > Your example works because your input happens to be in a normal form.
I am very unicode-ignorant, so apologies if I have misunderstood something, but doesn't Text do the same thing? Prelude T> import Data.Text.IO as T Prelude T T> T.putStrLn (T.take 5 (T.pack "Fro\x0308hßen")) Fröh Maybe your point is that neither "take" function should be used with unicode strings, but I don't see how advocating the Text type is going to help with that. Thanks Ian _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime