1 GNU LIBUNISTRING - Unicode string library
3 This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and
4 for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.
6 It consists of the following parts:
8 unistr.h elementary string functions
9 uniconv.h conversion from/to legacy encodings
10 unistdio.h formatted output to strings
11 uniname.h character names
12 unictype.h character classification and properties
13 uniwidth.h string width when using nonproportional fonts
14 unigbrk.h grapheme cluster breaks
16 unilbrk.h line breaking algorithm
17 uninorm.h normalization (composition and decomposition)
18 unicase.h case folding
19 uniregex.h regular expressions (not yet implemented)
21 libunistring is for you if your application involves non-trivial text
22 processing, such as upper/lower case conversions, line breaking, operations
23 on words, or more advanced analysis of text. Text provided by the user can,
24 in general, contain characters of all kinds of scripts. The text processing
25 functions provided by this library handle all scripts and all languages.
27 libunistring is for you if your application already uses the ISO C / POSIX
28 <ctype.h>, <wctype.h> functions and the text it operates on is provided by
29 the user and can be in any language.
31 libunistring is also for you if your application uses Unicode strings as
32 internal in-memory representation.
38 As usual for GNU packages:
40 $ ./configure --prefix=/usr/local
48 The libunistring library and its header files are under the GNU LGPL, see
49 file COPYING.LIB. This license is based on the GNU GPL, see file COPYING.
51 The documentation is under another license; see in the documentation.
57 http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.4.tar.gz
62 http://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/
67 <bug-libunistring@gnu.org>
70 Bruno Haible <bruno@clisp.org>