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| Libunistring |
| Computer languages | C,Shell script,M4 + |
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| Documentation note | http://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/manual/libunistring.html |
| Full description | Text files are nowadays usually encoded in … Text files are nowadays usually encoded in Unicode, and may consist of very different scripts – from Latin letters to Chinese Hanzi –, with many kinds of special characters – accents, right-to-left writing marks, hyphens, Roman numbers, and much more. But the POSIX platform APIs for text do not contain adequate functions for dealing with particular properties of many Unicode characters. In fact, the POSIX APIs for text have several assumptions at their base which don't hold for Unicode text. This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.strings according to the Unicode standard. |
| GNU package identifier | libunistring + |
| Homepage URL | http://www.gnu.org/software/libunistring/ + |
| Interface | library + |
| Is GNU | true + |
| Keywords | Unicode + , UTF-8 + , character + , UTF-16 + , POSIX + , strings + , character encoding + , API + , UTF-32 + , UTF + |
| Last review by | Donald Robertson + |
| Last review date | 18 January 2013 + |
| License | GPLv3orlater + , GFDL + , LGPLv3orlater + |
| License verified by | Kelly Hopkins + |
| License verified date | 3 May 2010 + |
| Name | libunistring + |
| Prerequisite description | libc + , libiconv + |
| Real name | Bruno Haible + |
| Resource URL | http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/ + , mailto:bug-libunistring-antispam@antispam.gnu.org + , http://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libunistring + , http://lists.gnu.org/mailman/listinfo/bug-libunistring + , http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=libunistring.git + , http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git + |
| Resource audience | Developer + , Bug Tracking + |
| Resource kind | Download + , E-mail + , Homepage + , Mailing List Info/Archive + , VCS Repository Webview + |
| Revisionid | 17,038 + |
| Revisiontimestamp | 27 March 2013 16:31:04 + |
| Revisionuser | User:Sudoman + |
| Role | Maintainer + |
| Short description | a library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard. + |
| Submitted by | Database conversion + |
| Submitted date | 1 April 2011 + |
| User level | intermediate + |
| Version date | 3 May 2010 + |
| Version download | http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.3.tar.gz + |
| Version identifier | 0.9.3 + |
| Version status | alpha + |
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| Has improper value forThis property is a special property in this wiki. | Prerequisite kind + |
| Modification dateThis property is a special property in this wiki. | 18 January 2013 21:04:36 + |
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| EmailThis property is a special property in this wiki. | bruno@clisp.org + |
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