[Haskell-cafe] What's in a text API?

I don't normally post blog links here, but this one is near and dear to my heart: what can we do to make Haskell a more hospitable language for text processing? http://www.serpentine.com/blog/2009/06/30/python-and-haskell-text-apis-compa... If you have comments or suggestions, please feel welcome to respond via the blog's comments or on this list. I'll be following both.