Hi, thanks for proposal,
Why questions connected with converting are considered only?
The library i18n should give a number of other services such as
normalization, comparison, sorting, etc.
Furthermore it's not so easy to keep such library up to date.
Why simply do not make a bindings to IBM ICU
(http://www-306.ibm.com/software/globalization/icu/index.jsp) library
which is up to date unicode implementation?
Vitaliy.
2007/9/25, Johan Tibell
Dear haskell-cafe,
I would like to propose a new, ByteString like, Unicode string library which can be used where both efficiency (currently offered by ByteString) and i18n support (currently offered by vanilla Strings) are needed. I wrote a skeleton draft today but I'm a bit tired so I didn't get all the details. Nevertheless I think it fleshed out enough for some initial feedback. If I can get the important parts nailed down before Hackathon I could hack on it there.
Apologies for not getting everything we discussed on #haskell down in the first draft. It'll get in there eventually.
Bring out your Unicode kung-fu!
http://haskell.org/haskellwiki/UnicodeByteString
Cheers,
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