On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Ian Lynagh <ig...@earth.li> wrote: > 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.
We already covered this. Text inherited a list-based API, even if that sometimes doesn't make sense. To work with Unicode you need more specific functions for different tasks. Text only implements a few so far, like case conversion and case-less comparison, and asks you to use text-icu for the rest. -- Johan _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
