15 May
2009
15 May
'09
7:11 a.m.
paolo.losi:
Bryan O'Sullivan wrote:
but we shouldn't be using String for text manipulation, and bundling utf8-string implicitly blesses that approach.
... sorry for the naive question. If we should not be using String, what should we be using instead?
For *text manipulation* (i.e. large bodies of text) a packed representation supporting unicode is appropriate. The 'text' package is the main candidate here.