Daniel Fischer <daniel.is.fisc...@web.de> writes: >> So why is there a UTF8 implementation for bytestrings? Does that not >> duplicate what Text is trying to do? If so, why the duplication?
> I think Data.ByteString.UTF8 predates Data.Text. One difference is that Data.Text uses UTF-16 internally, not UTF-8. >> When is each library more appropriate? Much data is overwhelmingly ASCII, but with an option for non-ASCII in comments, labels, or similar. E.g., for biological sequence data, files can be large (the human genome is about 3GB) and non-ascii characters can only occur in sequence headers which constitute a miniscule fraction of the total data. So I use ByteString for this. -k -- If I haven't seen further, it is by standing in the footprints of giants _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
