[Haskell-cafe] Unicode Haskell source -- Yippie!

[Christopher Allen]

I'm going to disagree for a different reason. The transition to Python 3
improved unicode support in some respects, but utterly gutted the
previously excellent codec support. Now you can't really handle arbitrary
source/destination encodings of text without treating everything as if they
were bytes. Really bad.


On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 1:54 AM, Travis Cardwell <
travis.cardwell at extellisys.com> wrote:

> On 2014年04月25日 15:34, Niklas Haas wrote:
> > FWIW, python's support for Unicode in its standard library is
> > significantly better than Haskell's. Haskell fails on basic functions
> > such as ‘toUpper’, ‘length’ or ‘==’.
>
> I have to humbly disagree.  Python does indeed have great Unicode support,
> but using Unicode for everything is not efficient in cases where it is not
> needed.  With Haskell, one can use bytestring [1] and text [2] as
> necessary to have more control over how content is processed.  Both
> packages are in Haskell Platform, the equivalent of Python's standard
> library.
>
> Cheers,
>
> Travis
>
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>
> [1] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/bytestring
> [2] http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text
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