id	summary	reporter	owner	description	type	status	milestone	resolution	keywords	cc	section	state
143	add an opaque Text type to the language standard	GregWeber		"Add the Text datatype to the language.

The text package for GHC exposes a Text datatype that represents a string.

The current String = [Char] standard has issues with

  * efficiency: there are more efficient representations than linked lists
  * correctness: for Unicode correctness, one must operate on a string as a whole rather than individual code points

see OpaqueText"	modification	new	Haskell 2011				N/A or multiple	discussion