Quoth Sean Leather
Which one do you use for strings in HTML or XML in which UTF-8 has become the commonly accepted standard encoding? It's text, not binary, so I should choose Data.Text. But isn't there a performance penalty for translating from Data.Text's internal 16-bit encoding to UTF-8?
Use both? I am not familiar with Text, but UTF-8 is pretty awkward, and I will sure look into Text before wasting any time trying to fine-tune my ByteString handling for UTF-8. But in practice only a fraction of my data input will be manipulated in an encoding-sensitive context. I'm thinking _all_ data is binary, and accordingly all inputs are ByteString; conversion to Text will happen as needed for ... uh, wait, is there a conversion from ByteString to Text? Well, if not, no doubt that's coming. Donn Cave, donn@avvanta.com