This package provides the Data.Text library, a library for the space- and time-efficient manipulation of Unicode text in Haskell.

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.

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

Please report bugs via the bitbucket issue tracker.

Master Mercurial repository:

• hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/text

There's also a git mirror:

• git clone git://github.com/bos/text.git

(You can create and contribute changes using either Mercurial or git.)

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 [email protected], and he is the current maintainer.