On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 13:12, Ian Lynagh <igloo@earth.li> wrote:

I think we established earlier that the list-like operations on Text are a backward compatibility wart.  Either they should go away, or they should be modified to operate on some other level than codepoints.  Probably the way the ecosystem should work is that [Char] (or possibly a packed version thereof, sort of like lazy ByteStrings with Word32 instead of Word8 as the fundamental unit) is the codepoint view and Text is the grapheme view; both are necessary at various times, but the grapheme view is the more natural one for text /per se/.