<div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, May 14, 2009 at 4:23 PM, Simon Michael <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:simon@joyful.com">simon@joyful.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; padding-left: 1ex;">
I'd like to request that utf8-string be added to the haskell platform, so that HP users can work with non-ascii text.<br>
</blockquote><div><br>I'd rather this wasn't added. It's an acceptable crutch for the short term, but we shouldn't be using String for text manipulation, and bundling utf8-string implicitly blesses that approach. The text library needs a few weeks of polish and some more testing work for QA, but it'll be the right answer well before the end of this year.<br>
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