+--
+-- Note: the Haskell 98 definition of 'isAlpha' is:
+--
+-- > isAlpha c = isUpper c || isLower c
+--
+-- the implementation here diverges from the Haskell 98
+-- definition in the sense that Unicode alphabetic characters which
+-- are neither upper nor lower case will still be identified as
+-- alphabetic by 'isAlpha'.