[Haskell-cafe] Bytestrings and [Char]

[Jochem Berndsen]

David Leimbach wrote:
> 
> 
> On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tibell at gmail.com 
> <mailto:johan.tibell at gmail.com>> wrote:
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>     On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Johann Höchtl
>     <johann.hoechtl at gmail.com <mailto:johann.hoechtl at gmail.com>> wrote:
>      > My question or discussion point: Why not depreciate [Char] altogether
>      > and favour of lazy Bytestrings?
> 
>     A sequence of bytes is not the same thing as a sequence of Unicode
>     code points. If you want to replace String by something more efficient
>     have a look at Data.Text.
> 
> 
> Slight correction.
> 
> A sequence of bytes is exactly the same thing as a sequence of Unicode 
> bytes when you use UTF8.  
> 

What is a "Unicode byte"?

Cheers, Jochem

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