unidecode 0.1.0.1 → 0.1.0.2

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• README.md +27/−0
• unidecode.cabal +2/−2

@@ -0,0 +1,27 @@+Unidecode: for when you need a terrible transliteration+=======================================================++So, for some reason you're stuck in the 90s and can't use UTF text. Punycode isn't cutting it?+Fine: Unidecode will help you murder some carefully constructed text into something vaguely readable in good ol'+"I don't wanna learn anything"-ASCII.++There's one function, unidecode :: Char -> String. If you have more text, I'm sure you can foldMap & pack it.++(This is sourced ultimately from Unicode.PM, but I scavenged the tables from Carter Schonwald, who graciously+allowed usage.)++Why did you write a bunch of C, Mark? Don't you like Haskell?+=============================================================++GHC compiled a big Haskell literal list fine, then crashed at runtime with some weaksauce excuse+about "i can't handle something that big, the compiler should have rejected it". Cons cells are for+closers, RTS.++The other approach that Carter took was to build an IntMap on top of the C data structures, but for reasons+I still can't quite comprehend, it didn't pass the stack-leak detection trick at +https://neilmitchell.blogspot.de/2015/09/detecting-space-leaks.html++quick bsearch did the job (and I learned in the process that a Haskell project is not a bad way+to build C code).++issues/PRs all welcome, but hopefully there's not anything missing.

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@ name:                unidecode-version:             0.1.0.1-synopsis:            Haskell translation of http://search.cpan.org/~sburke/Text-Unidecode-1.30/lib/Text/Unidecode.pm+version:             0.1.0.2+synopsis:            Haskell binding of Unidecode description:         Please see README.md homepage:            https://github.com/mwotton/unidecode#readme license:             BSD3