Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: New efficient Unicode string library.

On 9/26/07, Aaron Denney wrote:

On 2007-09-26, Johan Tibell wrote:

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If UTF-16 is what's used by everyone else (how about Java? Python?) I think that's a strong reason to use it. I don't know Unicode well enough to say otherwise.

The internal representations don't matter except in the case of making FFI linkages. The external representations do, and UTF-8 has won on that front.

It could matter for performance. However, you can encode your UnicodeString into any external representation you want for your I/O needs, including UTF-8.