6 Apr
2010
6 Apr
'10
1:32 a.m.
2010/4/6 Günther Schmidt
I initially start with Strings, ie. [Char], but there is no function to convert the 2 back and forth. There is however a function which takes [Word8] to BytesString and back.
The problem is one of encoding. If you use the Char8 Bytestring variants, then pack and unpack will return Strings... as long as you're OK using only those characters that can fit in 8 bytes. utf8-string lets you do conversions to/from Bytestring if you know the String in question is UTF-8; otherwise, if you use the Text library you have a variety of encodings to choose from. -- Ivan Lazar Miljenovic Ivan.Miljenovic@gmail.com IvanMiljenovic.wordpress.com