Convert to Text

[darrint]

According to this page, compactstring is obsolete.

http://hackage.haskell.org/package/compact-string

The advice given there is to switch to text. The text library is heavily optimized and part of the standard Haskell platform now. Is converting a reasonable change or is there a compelling reason to stay with compactstring?

[TonyGen]

I decided against text because its native format is UTF-16 instead of UTF-8 which is the native format for BSON and compact-string. compact-string requires no conversion when serializing BSON.

[darrint]

On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:16 PM, Tony Hannan <
reply@reply.github.com

wrote:

I decided against text because its native format is UTF-16 instead of
UTF-8 which is the native format for BSON and compact-string.
compact-string requires no conversion when serializing BSON.

I suggest making a note of this in the package description.