utf8-string-0.2: Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings

Portabilityportable
Stabilityexperimental
Maintaineremertens@galois.com

Codec.Binary.UTF8.String

Description

Support for encoding UTF8 Strings to and from [Word8]

Synopsis

Documentation

encode :: String -> [Word8]Source

Encode a Haskell String to a list of Word8 values, in UTF8 format.

decode :: [Word8] -> StringSource

Decode a UTF8 string packed into a list of Word8 values, directly to String

encodeString :: String -> StringSource

Encode a string using encode and store the result in a String.

decodeString :: String -> StringSource

Decode a string using decode using a String as input. | This is not safe but it is necessary if UTF-8 encoded text | has been loaded into a String prior to being decoded.