15 Aug
2010
15 Aug
'10
1:39 a.m.
Excerpts from John Millikin's message of Sun Aug 15 01:32:51 -0400 2010:
Also, despite the name, ByteString and Text are for separate purposes. ByteString is an efficient [Word8], Text is an efficient [Char] -- use ByteString for binary data, and Text for...text. Most mature languages have both types, though the choice of UTF-16 for Text is unusual.
Given that both Python, .NET, Java and Windows use UTF-16 for their Unicode text representations, I cannot really agree with "unusual". :-) Cheers, Edward