String != [Char]

[Johan Tibell]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Ian Lynagh <igloo at earth.li> wrote:
> I am very unicode-ignorant, so apologies if I have misunderstood
> something, but doesn't Text do the same thing?
>
> Prelude T> import Data.Text.IO as T
> Prelude T T> T.putStrLn (T.take 5 (T.pack "Fro\x0308hßen"))
> Fröh
>
> Maybe your point is that neither "take" function should be used with
> unicode strings, but I don't see how advocating the Text type is going
> to help with that.

We already covered this. Text inherited a list-based API, even if that
sometimes doesn't make sense.

To work with Unicode you need more specific functions for different
tasks. Text only implements a few so far, like case conversion and
case-less comparison, and asks you to use text-icu for the rest.

-- Johan