Excerpts from Gwern Branwen's message of Wed Dec 23 21:50:02 +0100 2009: > So I was planning a Unicodifying plugin for Gitit using > Yi.Char.Unicode, since I'd rather not come up with all the > substitutions myself. But I don't want to copy it, and I'd rather > encourage reuse. > > There are already 3 packages on Hackage which replace operators with symbols: > > - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/base-unicode-symbols > - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/containers-unicode-symbols > - http://hackage.haskell.org/package/unicode-prelude > > Perhaps we could split out *.Unicode to those packages? It oughtn't > cause any portability problems, since none of the 3 depend on anything > more than containers or base.
First. Sorry for my late participation and partial redundancy with other replies. Second. Yes I think that Yi.Char.Unicode should have a separate package, actually I extend it regularly and use it outside of Yi: to generate my .XCompose file from Haskell. Third. Having a package for Yi.Char.Unicode would not override with any of the three mentioned packages since there contents is different. These three packages provides aliases to existing Haskell functions but with nicer names i.e. using Unicode characters. While this module aims at providing a convenient for an increasing number of Unicode symbols. However I have currently no plan to make such a package, the main reason being the lack of careful and discussed design for such a package. Best regards, -- Nicolas Pouillard http://nicolaspouillard.fr -- Yi development mailing list yi-devel@googlegroups.com http://groups.google.com/group/yi-devel
