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1+Text: Fast, packed Unicode strings, using stream fusion
2+-------------------------------------------------------
3+
4+This package provides the Data.Text library, a library for the space-
5+and time-efficient manipulation of Unicode text in Haskell.
6+
7+
8+Normalization, conversion, and collation, oh my!
9+------------------------------------------------
10+
11+This library intentionally provides a simple API based on the Haskell
12+prelude's list manipulation functions. For more complicated
13+real-world tasks, such as Unicode normalization, conversion to and
14+from a larger variety of encodings, and collation, use the text-icu
15+package:
16+
17+ http://hackage.haskell.org/cgi-bin/hackage-scripts/package/text-icu
18+
19+That library uses the well-respected and liberally licensed ICU
20+library to provide these facilities.
21+
22+
23+Source code
24+-----------
25+
26+darcs get http://code.haskell.org/text
27+
28+
29+Authors
30+-------
31+
32+The base code for this library was originally written by Tom Harper,
33+based on the stream fusion framework developed by Roman Leshchinskiy,
34+Duncan Coutts, and Don Stewart. The core library was fleshed out,
35+debugged, and tested by Bryan O'Sullivan.