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2version: 0.8.0.0
2version: 0.8.0.0
3+homepage: http://code.haskell.org/text
3−synopsis: An efficient packed Unicode text type
4+synopsis: An efficient packed Unicode text type.
4−description: An efficient packed Unicode text type.
7+ An efficient packed, immutable Unicode text type (both strict and
8+ lazy), with a powerful loop fusion optimization framework.
10+ The 'Text' type represents Unicode character strings, in a time and
11+ space-efficient manner. This package provides text processing
12+ capabilities that are optimized for performance critical use, both
13+ in terms of large data quantities and high speed.
15+ The 'Text' type provides character-encoding, type-safe case
16+ conversion via whole-string case conversion functions. It also
17+ provides a range of functions for converting Text values to and from
18+ 'ByteStrings', using several standard encodings (see the 'text-icu'
19+ package for a much larger variety of encoding functions).
21+ Efficient locale-sensitive support for text IO is also supported.
23+ This module is intended to be imported qualified, to avoid name
24+ clashes with Prelude functions, e.g.
26+ > import qualified Data.Text as T
5license: BSD3
28license: BSD3
6license-file: LICENSE
29license-file: LICENSE
7author: Tom Harper <rtomharper@googlemail.com>
30author: Tom Harper <rtomharper@googlemail.com>