Re: Libunicode

[Raphael Mack]

Sounds great for me. In this case I think we should not go with a
simple generated wrapper, but have to really integrate it to be used
with the manifest unicode strings U"", we should support utf-x encoded
source files with direct unicode characters and not to forget a good
set of test cases and examples to make it easy to use and robust.

Rapha

Am Donnerstag, dem 06.01.2022 um 12:23 -0500 schrieb Louis M via:
> Hi,
> I have looked at the library and it seems powerful and standard. I
> think it would be a great addition to Liberty. Unicode compatibility
> is indeed something missing here.
> Good day,
> Louis M
> On 2022-01-06 10:37 a.m., Louis M via wrote:
>  
> >  
> > Seems fun. If nobody wants to, I can look at it.
> > Louis M
> > On 2022-01-06 10:20 a.m., Paolo Redaelli wrote:
> >  
> > >  
> > > LibUnistring has just reached version 1.0
> > > https://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/ 
> > > From it's website:
> > >  
> > > > This library implements Unicode strings in three flavours: UTF-
> > > > 8 strings, UTF-16 strings, UTF-32 strings, together with
> > > > functions for Unicode charactets, character names,
> > > > classifications, properties and functions for string processing
> > > > formatted output, width, word breaks, line breaks,
> > > > normalization, case folding, regular expressions.
> > > Unicode support is something we're currently quite weak.
> > > Wrapping it may be a easy route to have a better unicode support,
> > > at the price of adding a dependency. 
> > > It is worth to note that Gnome characters, Gnome boxes,
> > > mailutils, clisp and several other languages already depends on
> > > it so chances are most people already have installed... 
> > > If you think it is worth the effort I may wrap it as its design
> > > is really really similar to "plain" C strings
>