[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

Brandon S Allbery KF8NH allbery at ece.cmu.edu
Fri Aug 13 20:41:09 EDT 2010


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On 8/13/10 16:37 , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> Surely efficient Unicode text should always be the default? And if the

Efficient for what?  The most efficient Unicode representation for
Latin-derived strings is UTF-8, but the most efficient for CJK is UTF-16.

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