Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: [ANN] text 0.7, fast Unicode text

http://corsis.sourceforge.net/img/csharp-6.png http://corsis.sourceforge.net/img/csharp-6.pngo__O!? 2009/12/16 Bryan O'Sullivan

On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 8:03 PM, Ashley Yakeley wrote:

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How do you pack Unicode codepoints into Word16? Do you use UTF-16?

You don't get to find out as a user of the Text API, but yes.

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Supposing -

s = "\x010A60\x010A61" -- Old South Arabian script t = pack s

Is (unpack t) the same as s? What is (length t)?

Yes, and 2. Any other answer would clearly be wrong (I'm lookin' at you, Java and C#) :-)

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