Changelog of @hackage/encoding 0.6.5

Changes from 0.6.4 to 0.6.5

• Make package work with >=base-4.3.0.0 and mtl-2

Changes from 0.6.3 to 0.6.4

• Throw an error when encoding non-ascii chars with ascii
• Fix compilation with mtl-2

Changes from 0.6.2 to 0.6.3

• Use new QuickCheck version 2 for tests
• Fixed UTF16 encoding range

Changes from 0.6.0 to 0.6.1

• Support for many MSDOS codepages
• Show instance for DynEncoding
• More IO functions
• Fancy translation tables for the documentation of auto-generated modules

Changes from 0.5.2 to 0.6.0

• Moved from TemplateHaskell to a custom pre-processor for code-generation. This is necessary because:
  • TemplateHaskell is really slow for large data structures
  • TemplateHaskell doesn't yet support the MagicHash extension that is useful for the library
• Use efficient, static data structures for encoding/decoding
• Fixed bug in UTF-8 that could call 'chr' with bad arguments

Changes from 0.5 to 0.5.2

• Export function encodingFromStringExplicit

Changes from 0.4 to 0.5

• Complete rewrite of the Encoding class to allow for
  • On-the-fly changing of the encoding while en-/decoding
  • Ability to en-/decode from/to any data structure
• A general module to help specify encodings based on ISO 2022
• New encodings:
  • JIS X 0201
  • JIS X 0208
  • ISO 2022-JP
• More test cases

Changes from 0.3 to 0.4

• A new, strict UTF-8 decoder
• Minor bugs fixed in UTF-16 and BootString
• Test cases for UTF-8, UTF-16 and BootString
• Added KOI8U encoding

Changes from 0.2 to 0.3

• Converted to new cabal interface
• Support for GHC 6.8
• Support for new bytestring interface

Changes from 0.1 to 0.2

• Implemented GB18030 encoding