@hackage text-icu0.8.0.5

Bindings to the ICU library

Haskell bindings to the International Components for Unicode (ICU) libraries. These libraries provide robust and full-featured Unicode services on a wide variety of platforms.

Features include:

  • Both pure and impure bindings, to allow for fine control over efficiency and ease of use.

  • Breaking of strings on character, word, sentence, and line boundaries.

  • Access to the Unicode Character Database (UCD) of character metadata.

  • String collation functions, for locales where the conventions for lexicographic ordering differ from the simple numeric ordering of character codes.

  • Character set conversion functions, allowing conversion between Unicode and over 220 character encodings.

  • Unicode normalization. (When implementations keep strings in a normalized form, they can be assured that equivalent strings have a unique binary representation.)

  • Regular expression search and replace.

  • Security checks for visually confusable (spoofable) strings.

  • Bidirectional Unicode algorithm

  • Calendar objects holding dates and times.

  • Number and calendar formatting.