utf8-string

Support for reading and writing UTF8 Strings

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

LTS Haskell 24.12:	1.0.2
Stackage Nightly 2025-09-22:	1.0.2
Latest on Hackage:	1.0.2

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BSD-3-Clause licensed by Eric Mertens

Maintained by emertens@galois.com

This version can be pinned in stack with:utf8-string-1.0.2@sha256:79416292186feeaf1f60e49ac5a1ffae9bf1b120e040a74bf0e81ca7f1d31d3f,1538

Module documentation for 1.0.2

Codec
- Codec.Binary
  - Codec.Binary.UTF8
    - Codec.Binary.UTF8.Generic
    - Codec.Binary.UTF8.String
Data
- Data.ByteString
  - Data.ByteString.Lazy
    - Data.ByteString.Lazy.UTF8
  - Data.ByteString.UTF8
- Data.String
  - Data.String.UTF8

Depends on 2 packages(full list with versions):

base, bytestring

Used by 72 packages in lts-23.24(full list with versions):

aws, cabal-debian, cairo, clash-ghc, Clipboard, DAV, debian, epub-metadata, feed, fields-json, flatparse, gi-cairo-render, glib, hackage-db, happstack-jmacro, happstack-server, hasktags, haxr, HDBC, hexpat, hindent, hledger, hledger-lib, hledger-web, hlint, hoogle, http2, http-client-restricted, http-media, http-semantics, ihaskell, koji-tool, language-javascript, libmpd, ListLike, misfortune, nvim-hs, nvim-hs-contrib, ods2csv, persistent-redis, and many more

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