Re: [Haskell-cafe] Lightweight Unicode normalization library

Ah, I created a package for unicode normalization already since I got no responses to my mail: https://github.com/harendra-kumar/unicode-transforms I will take a look at prose as well since it is native Haskell. It does not seem to be on Hackage yet. -harendra On 25 March 2016 at 05:08, Rob Leslie wrote:

I don’t have a good answer, but I thought I’d mention this project which looks interesting and I’m considering using myself:

https://github.com/llelf/prose

-- Rob Leslie rob@mars.org

On Mar 17, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Harendra Kumar wrote:

I looked around and found only one package, text-icu which provides unicode normalization operations and a lot more. But text-icu depends on the icu library being installed on the system. We would prefer to avoid dependency on the icu library.

Is there a lightweight alternative which does not depend on icu? It could be a pure Haskell package or bindings to a lightweight C library where the library is small and shipped with the package itself.

I wonder if there is a need for unicode normalization operations in GHC code itself? If so how does it handle that?

I found a lightweight C library (https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc) for normalization and case folding used by the Julia lang project. If there is no other option I am considering creating bindings to this library.

Any pointers, thoughts?

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