[Haskell-cafe] Re: String vs ByteString

On Aug 14, 2:41 am, Brandon S Allbery KF8NH wrote:

Efficient for what?  The most efficient Unicode representation for Latin-derived strings is UTF-8, but the most efficient for CJK is UTF-16.

I think that this kind of programming detail should be handled internally (even if necessary by switching automatically from UTF-8 to UTF-16 depending upon the language). I'm using Haskell so that I can write high level code. In my view I should not have to care if the people using my application write in Farsi, Quechua or Tamil. Kevin