UTF8 (was Re: Hexdump)

[Ashley Yakeley]

Simon Marlow wrote:

> Getting a UTF-8 decoder right is quite non-trivial.  Take a look at this:
> 
>   http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mgk25/ucs/examples/UTF-8-test.txt
> 
> I made a half-hearted attempt to get most of this right in GHC's UTF-8 
> decoder, but by no means all of it is implemented.  I do think it would 
> be nice if the Haskell implementation was correct, for some value of 
> correct, though.

There are a couple of implementations here:
<http://cvs.sourceforge.net/viewcvs.py/haskell-i18n/Source/Text/Encoding/>

SF project:
<http://sourceforge.net/projects/haskell-i18n>

It hasn't been touched for a couple of years.

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