add utf8-string in haskell platform

[Simon Marlow]

On 15/05/2009 03:07, Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
> On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Simon Michael <simon at joyful.com
> <mailto:simon at joyful.com>> wrote:
>
>     I'd like to request that utf8-string be added to the haskell
>     platform, so that HP users can work with non-ascii text.
>
>
> I'd rather this wasn't added. It's an acceptable crutch for the short
> term, but we shouldn't be using String for text manipulation, and
> bundling utf8-string implicitly blesses that approach. The text library
> needs a few weeks of polish and some more testing work for QA, but it'll
> be the right answer well before the end of this year.

We ought to think about the interaction between text (and bytestring) 
and the new Unicode IO library.  What does text have in the way of IO 
operations?

I've been wondering about what bytestring's hGetLine should do.  Right 
now I have it doing decoding and then taking the low 8 bits, but that's 
not right.  OTOH, looking for '\n' in a stream of bytes doesn't seem 
right.  Maybe it should just be deprecated.

Cheers,
	Simon