On 2007-09-26, Johan Tibell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On 9/26/07, Aaron Denney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> On 2007-09-26, Johan Tibell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> > If UTF-16 is what's used by everyone else (how about Java? Python?) I >> > think that's a strong reason to use it. I don't know Unicode well >> > enough to say otherwise. >> >> The internal representations don't matter except in the case of making >> FFI linkages. The external representations do, and UTF-8 has won on >> that front. > > It could matter for performance. However, you can encode your > UnicodeString into any external representation you want for your I/O > needs, including UTF-8.
Right. I was trying to say "other languages internal representations shouldn't affect the choice of those doing a Haskell implementation." -- Aaron Denney -><- _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
