Can the unicode experts here propose a Text API whose functions work for all Unicode (start by removing list functions)? If there is such a satisfactory API and it does not conflict with the Prelude we could use it unqualified.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:21 AM, Johan Tibell <johan.tib...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Mon, Mar 26, 2012 at 10:12 AM, Ian Lynagh <ig...@earth.li> wrote: >> I am very unicode-ignorant, so apologies if I have misunderstood >> something, but doesn't Text do the same thing? >> >> Prelude T> import Data.Text.IO as T >> Prelude T T> T.putStrLn (T.take 5 (T.pack "Fro\x0308hßen")) >> Fröh >> >> Maybe your point is that neither "take" function should be used with >> unicode strings, but I don't see how advocating the Text type is going >> to help with that. > > We already covered this. Text inherited a list-based API, even if that > sometimes doesn't make sense. > > To work with Unicode you need more specific functions for different > tasks. Text only implements a few so far, like case conversion and > case-less comparison, and asks you to use text-icu for the rest. > > -- Johan > > _______________________________________________ > Haskell-prime mailing list > Haskell-prime@haskell.org > http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime _______________________________________________ Haskell-prime mailing list Haskell-prime@haskell.org http://www.haskell.org/mailman/listinfo/haskell-prime
