3 Jun
2010
3 Jun
'10
11:26 a.m.
--- On Thu, 6/3/10, Daniel Fischer
Perhaps Data.ByteString[.Lazy].UTF8 is an even better choice than Data.Text (depends on what you do).
I thought that I had the differences between the three libraries figured out but I guess not now from what you say. I had thought that String was a simple but memory inefficient model, that Text was for, well text, and that bytestrings were for binary data (eg. images, audio files and applications that required a true view on each text byte). So why is there a UTF8 implementation for bytestrings? Does that not duplicate what Text is trying to do? If so, why the duplication? When is each library more appropriate? Kevin