[Haskell-cafe] unicode text libraries

[Ketil Malde]

Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com> writes:

> I agree with Don. Also, I don't think that a Unicode type should
> mention what encoding it uses as it's an implementation detail.

Right.  I see from the documentation that it uses Word16s (and presumably
the utf-16 encoding).  Out of curiosity, why was this particular
encoding chosen, as opposed to utf-8 or utf-32/ucs-4?  Any benchmarks or
other information?

-k
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