Copyright	(c) 2008 2009 Tom Harper (c) 2009 2010 Bryan O'Sullivan (c) 2009 Duncan Coutts
License	BSD-style
Maintainer	bos@serpentine.com
Stability	experimental
Portability	GHC
Safe Haskell	None
Language	Haskell98

Data.Text.Internal

Contents

Types
Construction
Safety
Code that must be here for accessibility
Utilities
Checked multiplication
Debugging

Description

A module containing private Text internals. This exposes the Text representation and low level construction functions. Modules which extend the Text system may need to use this module.

You should not use this module unless you are determined to monkey with the internals, as the functions here do just about nothing to preserve data invariants. You have been warned!

Synopsis

data Text = Text !Array !Int !Int
text :: Array -> Int -> Int -> Text
textP :: Array -> Int -> Int -> Text
safe :: Char -> Char
empty :: Text
empty_ :: Text
firstf :: (a -> c) -> Maybe (a, b) -> Maybe (c, b)
mul :: Int -> Int -> Int
mul32 :: Int32 -> Int32 -> Int32
mul64 :: Int64 -> Int64 -> Int64
showText :: Text -> String

Types

Internally, the Text type is represented as an array of Word16 UTF-16 code units. The offset and length fields in the constructor are in these units, not units of Char.

Invariants that all functions must maintain:

Since the Text type uses UTF-16 internally, it cannot represent characters in the reserved surrogate code point range U+D800 to U+DFFF. To maintain this invariant, the safe function maps Char values in this range to the replacement character (U+FFFD, '�').
A leading (or "high") surrogate code unit (0xD800–0xDBFF) must always be followed by a trailing (or "low") surrogate code unit (0xDC00-0xDFFF). A trailing surrogate code unit must always be preceded by a leading surrogate code unit.

data Text Source #

A space efficient, packed, unboxed Unicode text type.

Constructors

Text !Array !Int !Int

Instances

type Item Text #
Instance details type Item Text = Char

Construction

text :: Array -> Int -> Int -> Text Source #

Construct a Text without invisibly pinning its byte array in memory if its length has dwindled to zero.

textP :: Array -> Int -> Int -> Text Source #

Deprecated: Use text instead

Safety

safe :: Char -> Char Source #

Map a Char to a Text-safe value.

UTF-16 surrogate code points are not included in the set of Unicode scalar values, but are unfortunately admitted as valid Char values by Haskell. They cannot be represented in a Text. This function remaps those code points to the Unicode replacement character (U+FFFD, '�'), and leaves other code points unchanged.