[Haskell-cafe] UTF-16 to UTF-8

[Ivan Lazar Miljenovic]

Günther Schmidt <gue.schmidt at web.de> writes:
> thanks for the tip, but how do I use the library?
> I can't really make out how to feed it UTF-16 and get String (UTF-8)
> back.

One way (probably not very efficient):

import Data.Text.Encoding

convert :: Bytestring -> Bytestring
convert = encodeUtf8 . decodeUtf16LE

No claims are made about efficiency of this technique (mainly because
unless you're already using Bytestrings, then it probably isn't very
efficient).

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