[Haskell-cafe] Lightweight Unicode normalization library

[Rob Leslie]

I don’t have a good answer, but I thought I’d mention this project which looks interesting and I’m considering using myself:

    https://github.com/llelf/prose

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Rob Leslie
rob at mars.org


> On Mar 17, 2016, at 12:59 AM, Harendra Kumar <harendra.kumar at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> I looked around and found only one package, text-icu which provides unicode normalization operations and a lot more. But text-icu depends on the icu library being installed on the system. We would prefer to avoid dependency on the icu library.
> 
> Is there a lightweight alternative which does not depend on icu? It could be a pure Haskell package or bindings to a lightweight C library where the library is small and shipped with the package itself.
> 
> I wonder if there is a need for unicode normalization operations in GHC code itself? If so how does it handle that?
> 
> I found a lightweight C library (https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc <https://github.com/JuliaLang/utf8proc>) for normalization and case folding used by the Julia lang project. If there is no other option I am considering creating bindings to this library.
> 
> Any pointers, thoughts?
> 
> Thanks,
> Harendra
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