text: An efficient packed Unicode text type.

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An efficient packed, immutable Unicode text type (both strict and lazy), with a powerful loop fusion optimization framework.

The Text type represents Unicode character strings, in a time and space-efficient manner. This package provides text processing capabilities that are optimized for performance critical use, both in terms of large data quantities and high speed.

The Text type provides character-encoding, type-safe case conversion via whole-string case conversion functions. It also provides a range of functions for converting Text values to and from ByteStrings, using several standard encodings (see the 'text-icu' package for a much larger variety of encoding functions).

Efficient locale-sensitive support for text IO is also supported.

This module is intended to be imported qualified, to avoid name clashes with Prelude functions, e.g.

import qualified Data.Text as T

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Dependencies base (<4.3), bytestring (>=0.9 && <1.0), deepseq (>=1.1.0.0 && <1.4), extensible-exceptions, ghc-prim [details]
License BSD-3-Clause
Copyright 2008-2009 Tom Harper, 2009-2010 Bryan O'Sullivan
Author Tom Harper <rtomharper@googlemail.com>
Maintainer Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com> Tom Harper <rrtomharper@googlemail.com> Duncan Coutts <duncan@haskell.org>
Revised Revision 3 made by HerbertValerioRiedel at 2015-06-30T07:23:35Z
Category Data, Text
Home page http://code.haskell.org/text
Source repo head: darcs get http://code.haskell.org/text/
Uploaded by BryanOSullivan at 2010-09-20T04:00:48Z
Distributions Arch:1.2.5.0, Fedora:2.0.2, FreeBSD:1.2.1.3
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Readme for text-0.9.0.0

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Text: Fast, packed Unicode strings, using stream fusion
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This package provides the Data.Text library, a library for the space-
and time-efficient manipulation of Unicode text in Haskell.


Normalization, conversion, and collation, oh my!
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This library intentionally provides a simple API based on the Haskell
prelude's list manipulation functions.  For more complicated
real-world tasks, such as Unicode normalization, conversion to and
from a larger variety of encodings, and collation, use the text-icu
package:

  http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text-icu

That library uses the well-respected and liberally licensed ICU
library to provide these facilities.


Source code
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darcs get http://code.haskell.org/text


Reporting bugs, asking for enhancements
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http://trac.haskell.org/text/


Authors
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The base code for this library was originally written by Tom Harper,
based on the stream fusion framework developed by Roman Leshchinskiy,
Duncan Coutts, and Don Stewart.

The core library was fleshed out, debugged, and tested by Bryan
O'Sullivan, and he is the current maintainer.