Erlang Idioms - A Pattern for an Erlang Programming Team

[Steve Davis]

Hi Kenji,

Yes indeed! The choice of character encoding is a matter that goes
beyond text manipulation.

The idiom I use works when you already know what character encoding
you are dealing with.

As for dealing with different character encodings, I have been
experimenting with the use of tuple records defined as:
-record(text, {bin, charset = utf8, lang = 'us-en'}).

Kind regards,
Steve

On Feb 12, 11:51 pm, Kenji Rikitake <kenji.rikit...@REDACTED> wrote:
> In the message <c907d226-14b9-4db1-ae94-8d64ded9d...@REDACTED>
> dated Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 04:58:37PM -0800,
>
> Steve Davis <steven.charles.da...@REDACTED> writes:
> > While it may appear troublesome to type <<"hello">> rather than
> > "hello", the rewards in later manipulation is extreme.
>
> This generally only works for ASCII strings, though I agree with the idea.
>
> Erlang's Unicode representation of strings introduces a complication in
> this matter.http://erlang.org/doc/man/unicode.html
>