Re: patch applied (cabal): First pass at parsing .cabal files as UTF8

On Mon, 2008-02-25 at 13:26 -0800, Don Stewart wrote:

duncan.coutts:

Why don't we use the existing, portable UTF8 IO package?

http://hackage.haskell.org/packages/archive/utf8-string/0.2/doc/html/System-...

But it's not. It does exactly the non-portable things that Ross was just complaining about. Also it interprets 4 and 5 byte UTF-8 forms and just uses replacement chars without any option for strict conversions. Also, the conversion code is slow. It does more list operations than are necessary and more safe checked chr operations. Duncan