Re: bytestring 0.9.0.4

5 Jan 2008

      dave:
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On Jan 5, 2008 12:37 AM, Don Stewart <[1]dons@galois.com> wrote:
The most notable change is the instance IsString for strict and
     lazy bytestrings, enabling bytestrings to be written as direct string
     literals, without needing 'pack'.
That is, the following is valid:
import Data.ByteString.Char8
main = print ("abcdef" :: ByteString)
What encoding is used?
The 'Data.ByteString.Char8' encodin:

    --               ... these byte strings are taken to be in the
    -- subset of Unicode covered by code points 0-255. This covers
    -- Unicode Basic Latin, Latin-1 Supplement and C0+C1 Controls.

You'll need to import Data.ByteString.Char8 to get the instance, so the
encoding should be clear in this case.

-- Don