UTF8 (was Re: Hexdump)

[Bayley, Alistair]

> From: libraries-bounces at haskell.org 
> [mailto:libraries-bounces at haskell.org] On Behalf Of Malcolm Wallace
> 
> I was also thinking it would be nice to have pure Haskell
> implementations of the various Unicode encodings.  Here is my 
> attempt at
> the UTF-8 codec.  Like Dominic, I am wondering where such a module
> should live in the hierarchy?
> 
>     Text.Codec.UTF8
>     Codec.Text.UTF8
>     Text.UTF8
>     Codec.UTF8
> 
> Regards,
>     Malcolm


My initial instinct is to put the UTF codecs in Foreign.C
(Foreign.C.Unicode, say, or Foreign.C.Codec), because I've only used
ever used them to marshall between Haskell Strings and CStrings. Also, a
bunch o' functions like withUTF8CString{Len}, peekUTF8CString, etc are
also useful.

OTOH, I can think of uses for non-CString oriented codecs (e.g.
converting an HTTP request body from a specific charset to Unicode), so
maybe this is a dumb idea.

Alistair
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