On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 8:34 AM, Malcolm Wallace <malcolm.wall...@me.com> wrote:
> Yes indeed. And I think it would be perfectly reasonable for the String (=
> [Char]) API to have a function "normalise :: String -> String" which would
> let the user deal with this issue as they see fit. After all, if you are
> aware of the difference between combining characters and normalised
> characters, then you will want to make your own decision about what semantics
> you want from operations like "take".
Normalization isn't quite enough unfortunately, as it does solve e.g.
upcase = map toUppper
You need all-at-once functions on strings (which we could add.) I'm
just pointing out that most (all?) list functions do the wrong thing
when used on Strings.
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