[Haskell-cafe] Re: [ANN] text 0.7, fast Unicode text

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ashley Yakeley <ashley at semantic.org> wrote:


> How do you pack Unicode codepoints into Word16? Do you use UTF-16?
>

You don't get to find out as a user of the Text API, but yes.


> Supposing -
>
>  s = "\x010A60\x010A61" -- Old South Arabian script
>  t = pack s
>
> Is (unpack t) the same as s? What is (length t)?
>

Yes, and 2. Any other answer would clearly be wrong (I'm lookin' at you,
Java and C#) :-)
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