Haskell Platform Proposal: add the 'text' library

[Colin Paul Adams]

>>>>> "Tyson" == Tyson Whitehead <twhitehead at gmail.com> writes:


    Tyson> Given that not all combined characters can be reduced to a
    Tyson> single code point (from your first paragraph), it would seem
    Tyson> that MacOS normalization has a conceptual advantage over
    Tyson> Windows normalization.

I don't think it is O/S specific. There are different normalization
schemes available to all O/Ses. The four most-standard ones are NFC,
NFD, NFKC and NFKD.

Here C standards for compmosition, D stands for Decomposition, and K
stands for Kompatibility.

Different applications have different needs.
-- 
Colin Adams
Preston Lancashire
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