Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'text' library

[kahl at cas.mcmaster.ca]

Duncan wrote about Unicode searching:

 > So if you're searching for a particular "character" then searching for a
 > single Char is not sufficient, you need to search for a short sequence
 > of Chars.

Or even, if you haven't normalised the text you are searching in,
you need to search for a small set of short sequences of Char.


Wolfram