[Haskell-beginners] string -> bytestring

[Christopher Howard]

On 01/01/2013 04:31 AM, Mateusz Kowalczyk wrote:
> See the answer to
> http://stackoverflow.com/questions/12576817/couldnt-match-expected-type-with-actual-type-error-when-using-codec-bmp
> 
> 
> In the future, provide a small code snippet as well so that anyone
> helping can easily point out where you're messing up.
> 
> On 01/01/13 12:03, Iustin Pop wrote:
> 
> 
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With some more research, I figured it out: The problem was, it seems,
that 8 bit ByteStrings are not the same as UTF8 ByteStrings. So I used
the pack function from Data.ByteString.Char8, and this compiles fine.

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