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1+# Text: Fast, packed Unicode strings, using stream fusion
2+
3+This package provides the Data.Text library, a library for the space-
4+and time-efficient manipulation of Unicode text in Haskell.
5+
6+
7+# Normalization, conversion, and collation, oh my!
8+
9+This library intentionally provides a simple API based on the
10+Haskell prelude's list manipulation functions. For more complicated
11+real-world tasks, such as Unicode normalization, conversion to and
12+from a larger variety of encodings, and collation, use the [text-icu
13+package](http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text-icu).
14+
15+That library uses the well-respected and liberally licensed ICU
16+library to provide these facilities.
17+
18+
19+# Get involved!
20+
21+Please report bugs via the
22+[bitbucket issue tracker](http://bitbucket.org/bos/attoparsec/statistics).
23+
24+Master [Mercurial repository](http://bitbucket.org/bos/statistics):
25+
26+* `hg clone http://bitbucket.org/bos/statistics`
27+
28+There's also a [git mirror](http://github.com/bos/statistics):
29+
30+* `git clone git://github.com/bos/statistics.git`
31+
32+(You can create and contribute changes using either Mercurial or git.)
33+
34+
35+# Authors
36+
37+The base code for this library was originally written by Tom Harper,
38+based on the stream fusion framework developed by Roman Leshchinskiy,
39+Duncan Coutts, and Don Stewart.
40+
41+The core library was fleshed out, debugged, and tested by Bryan
42+O'Sullivan <bos@serpentine.com>, and he is the current maintainer.