Re: [Haskell-cafe] Re: PROPOSAL: New efficient Unicode string library.

On Thu, 27 Sep 2007, Ross Paterson wrote:

Combining characters are not an issue here, just the surrogate pairs, because we're discussing representations of sequences of Chars (Unicode code points).

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