Excerpts from John Millikin's message of Sun Aug 15 01:32:51 -0400 2010: > Also, despite the name, ByteString and Text are for separate purposes. > ByteString is an efficient [Word8], Text is an efficient [Char] -- use > ByteString for binary data, and Text for...text. Most mature languages > have both types, though the choice of UTF-16 for Text is unusual.
Given that both Python, .NET, Java and Windows use UTF-16 for their Unicode text representations, I cannot really agree with "unusual". :-) Cheers, Edward _______________________________________________ Haskell-Cafe mailing list Haskell-Cafe@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-cafe
