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task #9186: Submission of GNU libunistring

Submitter:  Bruno Haible <haible>
Submitted:  Fri 13 Mar 2009 02:06:17 AM UTC
   
 
Should Start On:  Thu 12 Mar 2009 11:00:00 PM UTC Should be Finished on:  Sun 22 Mar 2009 11:00:00 PM UTC
Category:  Project Approval Priority:  * 5 - Normal
Status:  Done Privacy:  Public
Assigned to:  sgerhardt Open/Closed:  Closed
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Fri 13 Mar 2009 08:35:47 PM UTC, comment #1: 

Hi Bruno,

welcome on board and good luck with maintaing this project.

Sebastian Gerhardt <sgerhardt>
Fri 13 Mar 2009 02:06:17 AM UTC, original submission:  

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Registration Details


  • Name: GNU libunistring
  • System Name:  libunistring
  • Type: Official GNU software
  • License: GNU Lesser General Public License





Description:

A library for manipulation of Unicode strings,
and for Unicode aware manipulation of C strings.

Language: C.

Features:
  - Elementary string functions
  - Conversion from/to legacy encodings
  - Formatted output to strings
  - Character names
  - String width when using nonproportional fonts
  - Character classification and properties
  - Word breaks
  - Line breaking algorithm
  - Normalization, composition and decomposition
  - Case folding
  - Regular expression matching



Other Software Required:

No dependencies on glibc systems.
On other systems: Depends on GNU libiconv (LGPLv2+).



Other Comments:

The project was "dubbed" as a GNU project by RMS on
2009-03-12.

It is portable, runs as well on glibc systems as well as on other Unix systems.

No media files included.

You find the API that is already implemented in gnulib:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=tree;f=lib;h=41387243431943bdc60c17e2b3a87e04c5711aaa;hb=f93bd98a9570a4455f16eafc49c6227e5caa5a53
files uni*.h.

A tarball with documentation and packaging does not exist
yet; to be written. It will of course include a copy of
the LGPLv3.



Tarball URL:

http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/libunistring-0.5.tar.gz


Bruno Haible <haible>

 

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