Re: String != [Char]

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 08:20:45AM -0700, Johan Tibell wrote:

On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 7:48 AM, Malcolm Wallace wrote:

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In the region of this side of the Atlantic Ocean where I teach, the student population is very diverse

Prelude> putStrLn (take 5 "Fröhßen") Fröhß

ghci> putStrLn "Fro\x0308hßen" Fröhßen ghci> putStrLn (take 5 "Fro\x0308hßen") Fröh

Your example works because your input happens to be in a normal form.

I am very unicode-ignorant, so apologies if I have misunderstood something, but doesn't Text do the same thing? Prelude T> import Data.Text.IO as T Prelude T T> T.putStrLn (T.take 5 (T.pack "Fro\x0308hßen")) Fröh Maybe your point is that neither "take" function should be used with unicode strings, but I don't see how advocating the Text type is going to help with that. Thanks Ian