Re: [Haskell-cafe] unicode text libraries

On Mon, Sep 28, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Don Stewart wrote:

tittoassini:

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2009/9/28 Don Stewart :

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titto:

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Hi,

I am looking for an unicode strings  library, I found on hackage:

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/compact-string

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text

They both look solid and functionally complete so ... I don't know which one to use :-)

As I am sure I am not the first one facing this choice, may I ask which one you preferred and why?

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Data.Text

Thanks , but .. why?

Sorry, was on the way out the door. Data.Text has growing use, is well designed, and builds on the pedigree of bytestring and the vector* series of fusion libraries. I trust that code.

I agree with Don. Also, I don't think that a Unicode type should mention what encoding it uses as it's an implementation detail. -- Johan