How to do proper case folding with Parsec

Question

Is there a way to do proper case folding with Parsec (say I want a parser that behaves like stringCI from Data.Attoparsec.Text). The code that does case insensitive parsing in Text.Parsec.Token just uses char (toLower c) <|> char (toUpper c), but no proper case folding. So I'm puzzled whether this is possible at all.

Answer 1

Parsec doesn't have any functionality for this built-in, but you could implement it with e.g. foldCase from the case-insensitive package and satisfy in a loop. I'm not a Unicode expert, so I'm not sure what extra precautions you'd have to take to ensure correctness.

The text-icu package is recommended in the documentation of foldCase if you need locale-sensitive conversions; it seems to be pretty comprehensive.