I would like to get back to working on the proposal and determining how Text can be added to the language.
The discussion started because of the question of whether Text should support list processing functions at all, and if so how. That is a very legitimate question related to the Text proposal, at least if you are concerned about correct semantics. Once you are there, the discussion about Unicode characters is unavoidable, and is very much within the scope of discussing Text.
Can we take a break from arguing then, and can you create a wiki page that explains how you think Text should behave? This conversation is getting extremely long and repetitive. Can someone please show me how to create a wiki page on the Haskell proposals site (or suggest a different appropriate site)?