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This library contains a Standard ML implementation of a wide-string type and an I/O type, with fast encoder and decoder to and from UTF-8.
(Although the encoder and decoder are provided as separate structures, they are given only minimal signatures and aren't really intended to be used separately. The general-purpose interface is through the string structure and its signature, and the I/O structure.)
The decoder is designed for safe interoperability: it identifies invalid and overlong encodings and substitutes the replacement character for each such sequence as soon as it is recognised. It does the same thing with codepoints above the 17-plane Unicode limit.
Copyright 2015-2018 Chris Cannam.
Decoder inspired by Utf8.sml
by Martin Elsman
(https://github.com/melsman/unicode).
Encoder influenced by utf8.sml
by John Reppy.
MIT/X11 licence. See the file COPYING for details.