utf8-string

Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings

https://github.com/glguy/utf8-string/

LTS Haskell 24.18:1.0.2
Stackage Nightly 2025-11-03:1.0.2
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-1.0.2@sha256:79416292186feeaf1f60e49ac5a1ffae9bf1b120e040a74bf0e81ca7f1d31d3f,1538

Module documentation for 1.0.2

Depends on 2 packages(full list with versions):
base, bytestring

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

1.0.2

  • Add fromChar
  • Add IsString UTF8 instance
  • Fixup documentation and tests

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