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

On 22.03.2010 14:10, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:16 PM, Johann Höchtl wrote:

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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.

How are ByteStrings (Lazy, UTF8) and Data.Text meant to co-exist? When I read bytestrings over a socket which happens to be UTF16-LE encoded and identify a fitting function in Data.Text, I guess I have to transcode them with Data.Text.Encoding to make the type System happy?

-- Johan