26 Mar
2012
26 Mar
'12
5:21 p.m.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Ian Lynagh
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.
We already covered this. Text inherited a list-based API, even if that sometimes doesn't make sense. To work with Unicode you need more specific functions for different tasks. Text only implements a few so far, like case conversion and case-less comparison, and asks you to use text-icu for the rest. -- Johan