[Haskell-cafe] Sugestion for a basic Utf8 type.

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:haskell-cafe-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Mauricio
> 
> I would like to sugest a new basic type in Haskell. What if we had
> something like this (with any other quoting character):
> 
> «Je ne parle pas français. Meu nome é Maurício. ¿Hablas español?»
> 
> This would  be of type  Utf8. I  think now it  is not a  bad idea,
> since Haskell source  code is supposed to be  utf-8.  The internal
> representation of  this datatype would be a  null terminated utf-8
> byte vector. ...


Stream fusion on Haskell Unicode strings - Tom Harper
http://www.wellquite.org/non-blog/AngloHaskell2008/tom%20harper.pdf

I don't know what it's status is. The original implementation used UTF16 rather than UTF8.

Alistair
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