[Haskell-beginners] Simple UTF-8 output

[Erik de Castro Lopo]

Elvio Toccalino wrote:

> I usually pull such values as ByteStrings. The utf8-strings package
> provides printing functions for such data.
> Also, if you'd like to work on it as Text, there's the
> Data.Text.Encodings module, to decodeUTF8 or decodeASCII ByteString's
> into Text.

I would recommend Data.Text because that is designed for Text
encodings while ByteString is designed for handling arrays
of bytes (eg things like data read from an network socket).

Cheers,
Erik
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