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by tome 1562 days ago
> The real fix will happen when Data.Text moves from UTF-16 to UTF-8:

This work was completed a while ago.

https://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-2.0/changelog

> I don't know the timeline for its implementation in GHC.

Data.Text is a library, not a compiler feature, so completing it was not tied to GHC.