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Contents 1 Project: Improved support for Unicode (in Haskell tools and libraries) 2 Earlier work 3 Ideas 4 Links

1 Project: Improved support for Unicode (in Haskell tools and libraries)

I've created this page to collect some ideas for improving Unicode support in Haskell. I'm considering applying to do this as a Google Summer of Code project in 2008.

Please feel free to edit this page! I want to get feedback on what would be useful and feasible, what tasks have been done already, links to useful documents and so on.

2 Earlier work

I've been looking into this problem on and off over the past year or so:

• Survey: Haskell Unicode support
• hiconv
• Notes on UTF8 in source

3 Ideas

Some project ideas:

• locale-based charset conversion in GHC
• Unicode ByteString
• Unicode ByteString Parsec
• cabal integration for gettext
• Documentation (best practices)

4 Links

• http://hackage.haskell.org/trac/summer-of-code/