utf8-string

Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings

Version on this page:	1.0.1.1@rev:2
LTS Haskell 24.27:	1.0.2
Stackage Nightly 2026-01-11:	1.0.2
Latest on Hackage:	1.0.2

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Eric Mertens

Maintained by [email protected]

This version can be pinned in stack with:utf8-string-1.0.1.1@sha256:19d60820611ed14041c63bd240958a652276b68d4ca3cf6042864a166fd227ad,1154

Module documentation for 1.0.1.1

Codec
- Codec.Binary
  - Codec.Binary.UTF8
    - Codec.Binary.UTF8.Generic
    - Codec.Binary.UTF8.String
Data
- Data.ByteString
  - Data.ByteString.Lazy
    - Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8
  - Data.ByteString.UTF8
- Data.String
  - Data.String.UTF8

Depends on 2 packages(full list with versions):

base, bytestring

Used by 70 packages in nightly-2017-11-21(full list with versions):

aws, cabal2nix, cairo, cisco-spark-api, Clipboard, DAV, epub-metadata, feed, follow-file, ginger, git, git-annex, glib, hackage-db, happstack-jmacro, happstack-server, haxr, HDBC, hexpat, highlighting-kate, hindent, hit, hledger, hledger-lib, hoogle, hprotoc, hsx2hs, http-media, irc-dcc, json-builder, language-javascript, libmpd, LibZip, ListLike, llvm-hs, MFlow, nvim-hs, nvim-hs-contrib, prometheus-client, prometheus-metrics-ghc, and many more

A UTF8 layer for Strings. The utf8-string package provides operations for encoding UTF8 strings to Word8 lists and back, and for reading and writing UTF8 without truncation.

Changes

1.0.1.1

Build correctly on GHC-7.0 (#14)

1.0.1

Improve the performance of Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8.fromString. (Thanks, ndmitchell)

1

Remove out all the old utf8 IO support. GHC supports utf8 now.

0.3.8

Performance tweaks
bytestring-in-base flag default to False