[Haskell-cafe] unicode text libraries

[Don Stewart]

tittoassini:
> 2009/9/28 Don Stewart <dons at galois.com>:
> > titto:
> >> Hi,
> >>
> >> I am looking for an unicode strings  library, I found on hackage:
> >>
> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/compact-string
> >>
> >> http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text
> >>
> >> They both look solid and functionally complete so ... I don't know which
> >> one to use :-)
> >>
> >> As I am sure I am not the first one facing this choice, may I ask
> >> which one you preferred and why?
> 
> > Data.Text
> 
> Thanks , but .. why?

Sorry, was on the way out the door. Data.Text has growing use, is well
designed, and builds on the pedigree of bytestring and the vector*
series of fusion libraries. I trust that code. 

-- Don