On Tue, 2009-09-29 at 10:48 +0200, Ketil Malde wrote: > Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> writes: > > > I agree with Don. Also, I don't think that a Unicode type should > > mention what encoding it uses as it's an implementation detail. > > Right. I see from the documentation that it uses Word16s (and presumably > the utf-16 encoding). Out of curiosity, why was this particular > encoding chosen, as opposed to utf-8 or utf-32/ucs-4? Any benchmarks or > other information?
Yes, the choice was based on benchmarks. All three (UTF-8,16,32) were implemented and benchmarked. You can read about the details in Tom Harper's MSc thesis. Duncan _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
