On Thu, 2007-08-02 at 18:44 +0200, Wolfgang Jeltsch wrote:

Am Donnerstag, 2. August 2007 12:22 schrieb Henning Günther:

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ISO 8859-* (alias latin-*)

Not every ISO-8859-* encoding is a Latin-* encoding.

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Wouldn’t it be good to use some already existing library like iconv or do you think, this is not feasible (because you want to support lazyness, for example)?

Yes, I was talking to Henning about this. I've got an iconv binding[1] that use lazy bytestrings (so it does support lazyness of course) and is pretty quick. Henning has been thinking much more about what the appropriate api should be, I've just got: type Encoding = String convert :: Encoding -> Encoding -> Lazy.ByteString -> Lazy.ByteString so we might be able to use iconv underneath (if it's available). Duncan [1] darcs get http://haskell.org/~duncan/iconv/