[Haskell-cafe] unicode text libraries

[Alexander Dunlap]

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 9:15 AM, Don Stewart <dons at galois.com> wrote:
> 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
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I just have a question out of curiosity - why was the decision made to
have Data.Text, uvector, and ByteString all separate data structures,
rather than defining the string types in terms of uvector?

Alex