Don Stewart wrote:
* utf8-string A UTF8 layer for IO and Strings. The utf8-string package provides operations for encoding UTF8 strings to Word8 lists and back, and for reading and writing UTF8 without truncation.
http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/utf8-string
When I read this, my first thought was "but does it support ByteStrings?" Apparently that's a "yes"... yay!
About:
Galois http://galois.com researches, designs and develops high assurance technologies for security-critical systems, networks and applications. We use Haskell as a primary development tool for producing robust components for a diverse range of clients.
You know, this has been puzzling me for ages. Everybody round here seems to "know" who or what Galois is, except me. So now I know!
Web-based technologies are increasingly important in this area, and we believe Haskell has a key role to play in the production of reliable, secure web software. The culture of correctness Haskell encourages is ideally suited to web programming, where issues of security, authentication, privacy and protection of resources abound. In particular, Haskell's type system makes possible strong static guarantees about access to resources, critical to building reliable web applications. We hope that the release of this suite of libraries to the community will push further the adoption of Haskell in the domain of web programming.
Well, all of that is true of course... but given that most people percieve I/O as being "hard" in Haskell, it seems like an interesting target. But hey, here's to success!