[Haskell-cafe] request for co-development: improving Data.CharEncoding module

[Shannon -jj Behrens]

On 5/26/06, Bulat Ziganshin <bulat.ziganshin at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello Haskell,
>
> i plan to publish new version of Streams library on next week (see
> http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/Library/Streams if you still don't know
> about it :) ). one of it's current drawbacks is lack of support for
> file encodings other than UTF-8 and Latin-1. if someone can work on
> this support, it will widen usage area of the library
>
> i attached to letter current version of this module. it uses monadic
> approach to encoding and decoding: each encoder is just a function
> that performs monadic PutChar action via calls to monadic PutByte
> action, and decoder in the same fashion translates each call to
> GetChar into calls to GetByte. this allows to use encoders in various
> environments - for monadic i/o, string conversion and so on
>
> this module requires two improvements - first, support for other UTF
> encodings; second, raising an exception in situations when data can't
> be encoded (such as char > '\255' for Latin-1) or decoded (bad UTF
> bytes sequence). if you are going to work on this module, please write
> about this here - to avoid overlapping of work

I wonder if it helps any to "steal" this code from Python and
translate it into Haskell.

/me goes back to lurking.

-jj