diff --git a/README b/README new file mode 100644 index 0000000000000000000000000000000000000000..ef14f1364a5aa013b9bf3409eec5e41288bc8a66 --- /dev/null +++ b/README @@ -0,0 +1,35 @@ +Text: Fast, packed Unicode strings, using stream fusion +------------------------------------------------------- + +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! +------------------------------------------------ + +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 +----------- + +darcs get http://code.haskell.org/text + + +Authors +------- + +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. diff --git a/text.cabal b/text.cabal index 80532fb6c0969ef34b1d02cd5ce45b8a88b9f933..50330d41eb8637899025664b6f6c4860a75478d3 100644 --- a/text.cabal +++ b/text.cabal @@ -1,5 +1,5 @@ name: text -version: 0.0 +version: 0.1 synopsis: An efficient packed Unicode text type description: An efficient packed Unicode text type. license: BSD3