[erlang-questions] String encoding and character set

[dda]

String types – at least well-implemented ones – don't just store a
string, but also encoding information. They are/should be geared
towards pain-free manipulation of text data, and by text I mean things
outside ASCII-land. Encodings-aware string manipulation functions
don't function on bytes, but on characters, a quite different notion.
We don't have this in Erlang.

-- 
dda

On 1/10/07, Ludovic Coquelle <lcoquelle@REDACTED> wrote:
> Anyway I just don't understand the real advantage of a string data type
> (for me it only means that performance could be better),
> so I don't understand why people complain so much about that.