On behalf of the Data.Text team, I am delighted to announce the release of preview versions of two new packages:<br><br>text 0.1<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Fast, packed Unicode text support, using a modern stream fusion framework.<br>
<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text">http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text</a><br></div><br>text-icu 0.1<br><div style="margin-left: 40px;">Augments text with comprehensive character set conversion support and normalization (and soon more), via bindings to the ICU library.<br>
<a href="http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text-icu">http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text-icu</a><br></div><br>These packages fill out critical pieces of functionality for the Haskell platform, without compromising on either performance or safety.<br>
<br>We are referring to these as <i>preview</i> releases because although the text package in particular has been quite heavily tested, it has not been thoroughly tuned, and we have not yet implemented a chunked lazy text representation suitable for streaming gigabytes of data. The APIs are pretty conventional, but are still subject to change.<br>
<br>If you want to contribute, please get copies of the source trees from here:<br><br>darcs get <a href="http://code.haskell.org/text">http://code.haskell.org/text</a><br>darcs get <a href="http://darcs.serpentine.com/text-icu">http://darcs.serpentine.com/text-icu</a><br>
<br>Please send bug reports and patches to your friendly Data.Text team:<br><br>Tom Harper &lt;<a href="mailto:rtharper@aftereternity.co.uk">rtharper@aftereternity.co.uk</a>&gt;<br>Duncan Coutts &lt;<a href="mailto:duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk">duncan.coutts@worc.ox.ac.uk</a>&gt;<br>
Bryan O&#39;Sullivan &lt;<a href="mailto:bos@serpentine.com">bos@serpentine.com</a>&gt;<br>