Re: [Haskell-cafe] Bytestrings and [Char]

David Leimbach wrote:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 6:10 AM, Johan Tibell mailto:johan.tibell@gmail.com> wrote:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Johann Höchtl mailto:johann.hoechtl@gmail.com> wrote: > My question or discussion point: Why not depreciate [Char] altogether > and favour of lazy Bytestrings?

A sequence of bytes is not the same thing as a sequence of Unicode code points. If you want to replace String by something more efficient have a look at Data.Text.

Slight correction.

A sequence of bytes is exactly the same thing as a sequence of Unicode bytes when you use UTF8.

What is a "Unicode byte"? Cheers, Jochem -- Jochem Berndsen | jochem@functor.nl