Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8.Unified

This module unifies some parts of bytestring (as is in 0.9.1.5 version) and utf8-string (as is in 0.3.6 version) packages - it exports Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8, Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8 and System.IO.UTF8, while hiding from the first everything that is to be found in latter two. Ofcourse System.IO.UTF8 routines are wrapped to work with lazy ByteStrings instead of Strings. This way we get a module an Data.ByteString.Lazy.Char8 alternative that won't corrupt Unicode symbols, an that will make a proper IO with them.

This module is intended to be imported qualified, to avoid name clashes with Prelude functions. eg.

import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8.Unified as B

or even

 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8.Unified as Lazy     (ByteString)
 import qualified Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8.Unified as B hiding (ByteString)