Excerpts from Kevin Jardine's message of Fri Aug 13 16:37:14 -0400 2010: > I find it disturbing that a modern programming language like Haskell > still apparently forces you to choose between a representation for > "mostly ASCII text" and Unicode. > > Surely efficient Unicode text should always be the default? And if the > Unicode format used by the Text library is not efficient enough then > can't that be fixed?
For what it's worth, Java uses UTF-16 representation internally for strings, and thus also wastes space. There is something to be said for UTF-8 in-memory representation, but it takes a lot of care. A newtype for dirty and clean UTF-8 may come in handy. Cheers, Edward _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
