Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: New efficient Unicode string library.

On Wed, 2007-10-03 at 14:15 +0200, Stephane Bortzmeyer wrote:

On Wed, Oct 03, 2007 at 12:01:50AM +0200, Twan van Laarhoven wrote a message of 24 lines which said:

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Lots of people wrote:

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I want a UTF-8 bikeshed! No, I want a UTF-16 bikeshed!

Personnally, I want an UTF-32 bikeshed. UTF-16 is as lousy as UTF-8 (for both of them, characters have different sizes, unlike what happens in UTF-32).

+1

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What the heck does it matter what encoding the library uses internally?

+1 It can even use a non-standard encoding scheme if it wants.

+3 jcc