Hi, I would like to sugest a new basic type in Haskell. What if we had something like this (with any other quoting character):
«Je ne parle pas français. Meu nome é Maurício. ¿Hablas español?» This would be of type Utf8. I think now it is not a bad idea, since Haskell source code is supposed to be utf-8. The internal representation of this datatype would be a null terminated utf-8 byte vector. No standard operations would be defined on that type, i.e., it would be a “communication standard” between everybody, but module writers could develop different basic usage based on operations on them using Foreign. (I think it would be dificult to set default operations, since there are so many things you can do with utf-8.) Pros: * There would be no doubt you can use utf-8 when using this, since there's no conversion involved. * Cleaner code on utf8 operations, maybe. There are many utf8 modules today with different goals in mind, I thing it would be nice if they could share this common basic type and a common underline implementation. Cons: * Probably, many. I have no deep understanding of Haskell. Thanks for your attention, Maurício _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
