@@ -15,17 +15,22 @@ description:
16 The 'Text' type provides character-encoding, type-safe case
16 The 'Text' type provides character-encoding, type-safe case
17 conversion via whole-string case conversion functions. It also
17 conversion via whole-string case conversion functions. It also
18− provides a range of functions for converting Text values to and from
18+ provides a range of functions for converting 'Text' values to and from
19− 'ByteStrings', using several standard encodings (see the 'text-icu'
19+ 'ByteStrings', using several standard encodings.
20− package for a much larger variety of encoding functions).
22 Efficient locale-sensitive support for text IO is also supported.
21 Efficient locale-sensitive support for text IO is also supported.
24− This module is intended to be imported qualified, to avoid name
23+ These modules are intended to be imported qualified, to avoid name
25 clashes with Prelude functions, e.g.
24 clashes with Prelude functions, e.g.
27 > import qualified Data.Text as T
26 > import qualified Data.Text as T
28+ To use an extended and very rich family of functions for working
29+ with Unicode text (including normalization, regular expressions,
30+ non-standard encodings, text breaking, and locales), see
31+ the @text-icu@ package:
32+ <http://hackage.haskell.org/package/text-icu>
29license: BSD3
34license: BSD3
30license-file: LICENSE
35license-file: LICENSE
31author: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>
36author: Bryan O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>