Re: [Haskell-cafe] ANNOUNCE: string-conversions-0.1

Michael Snoyman wrote:

I'm the author of convertible-text, and I consider it deprecated (it's marked as such in the synopsis).

As far as string-conversions, I'm a little concerned that it's using decodeUtf8, which can throw exceptions from pure code for invalid UTF8 sequences. I would prefer decodeUtf8With lenientDecode.

I wasn't aware of 'decodeUtf8With lenientDecode'. I changed it in the repo.

Actually, my *real* preference would be that a lenient decode was the default so that we aren't exposing a partial function as the default way to decode bytes.

Are you talking about the default in decodeUtf8? (If yes, I tend to agree.) Sönke