[Haskell-cafe] Data.Binary, Data.Text and errors

[Bryan O'Sullivan]

On Sun, Mar 15, 2009 at 8:40 PM, Alexander Dunlap <
alexander.dunlap at gmail.com> wrote:

>
> I have noticed that in both Data.Binary and Data.Text (which is still
> experimental, but still), the "decode" functions can be undefined
> (i.e. bottom) if they encounter malformed input.
>

For decoding Unicode, it's typical to provide a flexible API that can do one
of the following on a bad encoding:

   - Substitute a character
   - Skip it
   - Return the partial decode
   - Throw an exception

I just haven't gotten there yet.
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