[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

[Brandon S Allbery KF8NH]

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On 8/14/10 01:29 , Kevin Jardine wrote:
> I think that this kind of programming detail should be handled
> internally (even if necessary by switching automatically from UTF-8 to
> UTF-16 depending upon the language).

This is going to carry a heavy speed penalty.

> I'm using Haskell so that I can write high level code. In my view I
> should not have to care if the people using my application write in
> Farsi, Quechua or Tamil.

Ideally yes, but arguably the existing Unicode representations don't allow
this to be done nicely.  (Of course, arguably there is no "nice" way to do
it; UTF-16 is the best you can do as a workable generic setting.)

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