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1 Introduction

This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.

It consists of the following parts:

<unistr.h>

elementary string functions

<uniconv.h>

conversion from/to legacy encodings

<unistdio.h>

formatted output to strings

<uniname.h>

character names

<unictype.h>

character classification and properties

<uniwidth.h>

string width when using nonproportional fonts

<unigbrk.h>

grapheme cluster breaks

<uniwbrk.h>

word breaks

<unilbrk.h>

line breaking algorithm

<uninorm.h>

normalization (composition and decomposition)

<unicase.h>

case folding

<uniregex.h>

regular expressions (not yet implemented)

libunistring is for you if your application involves non-trivial text processing, such as upper/lower case conversions, line breaking, operations on words, or more advanced analysis of text. Text provided by the user can, in general, contain characters of all kinds of scripts. The text processing functions provided by this library handle all scripts and all languages.

libunistring is for you if your application already uses the ISO C / POSIX <ctype.h>, <wctype.h> functions and the text it operates on is provided by the user and can be in any language.

libunistring is also for you if your application uses Unicode strings as internal in-memory representation.


1.1 Unicode

Unicode is a standardized repertoire of characters that contains characters from all scripts of the world, from Latin letters to Chinese ideographs and Babylonian cuneiform glyphs. It also specifies how these characters are to be rendered on a screen or on paper, and how common text processing (word selection, line breaking, uppercasing of page titles etc.) is supposed to behave on Unicode text.

Unicode also specifies three ways of storing sequences of Unicode characters in a computer whose basic unit of data is an 8-bit byte:

UTF-8

Every character is represented as 1 to 4 bytes.

UTF-16

Every character is represented as 1 to 2 units of 16 bits.

UTF-32, a.k.a. UCS-4

Every character is represented as 1 unit of 32 bits.

For encoding Unicode text in a file, UTF-8 is usually used. For encoding Unicode strings in memory for a program, either of the three encoding forms can be reasonably used.

Unicode is widely used on the web. Prior to the use of Unicode, web pages were in many different encodings (ISO-8859-1 for English, French, Spanish, ISO-8859-2 for Polish, ISO-8859-7 for Greek, KOI8-R for Russian, GB2312 or BIG5 for Chinese, ISO-2022-JP-2 or EUC-JP or Shift_JIS for Japanese, and many many others). It was next to impossible to create a document that contained Chinese and Polish text in the same document. Due to the many encodings for Japanese, even the processing of pure Japanese text was error prone.

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1.2 Unicode and Internationalization

Internationalization is the process of changing the source code of a program so that it can meet the expectations of users in any culture, if culture specific data (translations, images etc.) are provided.

Use of Unicode is not strictly required for internationalization, but it makes internationalization much easier, because operations that need to look at specific characters (like hyphenation, spell checking, or the automatic conversion of double-quotes to opening and closing double-quote characters) don’t need to consider multiple possible encodings of the text.

Use of Unicode also enables multilingualization: the ability of having text in multiple languages present in the same document or even in the same line of text.

But use of Unicode is not everything. Internationalization usually consists of four features:

  • Use of Unicode where needed for text processing. This is what this library is for.
  • Use of message catalogs for messages shown to the user, This is what GNU gettext is about.
  • Use of locale specific conventions for date and time formats, for numeric formatting, or for sorting of text. This can be done adequately with the POSIX APIs and the implementation of locales in the GNU C library.
  • In graphical user interfaces, adapting the GUI to the default text direction of the current locale (see right-to-left languages).

1.3 Locale encodings

A locale is a set of cultural conventions. According to POSIX, for a program, at any moment, there is one locale being designated as the “current locale”. (Actually, POSIX supports also one locale per thread, but this feature is not yet universally implemented and not widely used.) The locale is partitioned into several aspects, called the “categories” of the locale. The main various aspects are:

  • The character encoding and the character properties. This is the LC_CTYPE category.
  • The sorting rules for text. This is the LC_COLLATE category.
  • The language specific translations of messages. This is the LC_MESSAGES category.
  • The formatting rules for numbers, such as the decimal separator. This is the LC_NUMERIC category.
  • The formatting rules for amounts of money. This is the LC_MONETARY category.
  • The formatting of date and time. This is the LC_TIME category.

In particular, the LC_CTYPE category of the current locale determines the character encoding. This is the encoding of ‘char *’ strings. We also call it the “locale encoding”. GNU libunistring has a function, locale_charset, that returns a standardized (platform independent) name for this encoding.

All locale encodings used on glibc systems are essentially ASCII compatible: Most graphic ASCII characters have the same representation, as a single byte, in that encoding as in ASCII.

Among the possible locale encodings are UTF-8 and GB18030. Both allow to represent any Unicode character as a sequence of bytes. UTF-8 is used in most of the world, whereas GB18030 is used in the People’s Republic of China, because it is backward compatible with the GB2312 encoding that was used in this country earlier.

The legacy locale encodings, ISO-8859-15 (which supplanted ISO-8859-1 in most of Europe), ISO-8859-2, KOI8-R, EUC-JP, etc., are still in use in some places, though.

UTF-16 and UTF-32 are not used as locale encodings, because they are not ASCII compatible.


1.4 Choice of in-memory representation of strings

There are three ways of representing strings in memory of a running program.

  • As ‘char *’ strings. Such strings are represented in locale encoding. This approach is employed when not much text processing is done by the program. When some Unicode aware processing is to be done, a string is converted to Unicode on the fly and back to locale encoding afterwards.
  • As UTF-8 or UTF-16 or UTF-32 strings. This implies that conversion from locale encoding to Unicode is performed on input, and in the opposite direction on output. This approach is employed when the program does a significant amount of text processing, or when the program has multiple threads operating on the same data but in different locales.
  • As ‘wchar_t *’, a.k.a. “wide strings”. This approach is misguided, see The wchar_t mess.

Of course, a ‘char *’ string can, in some cases, be encoded in UTF-8. You will use the data type depending on what you can guarantee about how it’s encoded: If a string is encoded in the locale encoding, or if you don’t know how it’s encoded, use ‘char *’. If, on the other hand, you can guarantee that it is UTF-8 encoded, then you can use the UTF-8 string type, uint8_t *, for it.

The five types char *, uint8_t *, uint16_t *, uint32_t *, and wchar_t * are incompatible types at the C level. Therefore, ‘gcc -Wall’ will produce a warning if, by mistake, your code contains a mismatch between these types. In the context of using GNU libunistring, even a warning about a mismatch between char * and uint8_t * is a sign of a bug in your code that you should not try to silence through a cast.


1.5 ‘char *’ strings

The classical C strings, with its C library support standardized by ISO C and POSIX, can be used in internationalized programs with some precautions. The problem with this API is that many of the C library functions for strings don’t work correctly on strings in locale encodings, leading to bugs that only people in some cultures of the world will experience.

The first problem with the C library API is the support of multibyte locales. According to the locale encoding, in general, every character is represented by one or more bytes (up to 4 bytes in practice — but use MB_LEN_MAX instead of the number 4 in the code). When every character is represented by only 1 byte, we speak of an “unibyte locale”, otherwise of a “multibyte locale”. It is important to realize that the majority of Unix installations nowadays use UTF-8 or GB18030 as locale encoding; therefore, the majority of users are using multibyte locales.

The important fact to remember is:

A ‘char’ is a byte, not a character.

As a consequence:

  • The <ctype.h> API is useless in this context; it does not work in multibyte locales.
  • The strlen function does not return the number of characters in a string. Nor does it return the number of screen columns occupied by a string after it is output. It merely returns the number of bytes occupied by a string.
  • Truncating a string, for example, with strncpy, can have the effect of truncating it in the middle of a multibyte character. Such a string will, when output, have a garbled character at its end, often represented by a hollow box.
  • strchr and strrchr do not work with multibyte strings if the locale encoding is GB18030 and the character to be searched is a digit.
  • strstr does not work with multibyte strings if the locale encoding is different from UTF-8.
  • strcspn, strpbrk, strspn cannot work correctly in multibyte locales: they assume the second argument is a list of single-byte characters. Even in this simple case, they do not work with multibyte strings if the locale encoding is GB18030 and one of the characters to be searched is a digit.
  • strsep and strtok_r do not work with multibyte strings unless all of the delimiter characters are ASCII characters < 0x30.
  • The strcasecmp, strncasecmp, and strcasestr functions do not work with multibyte strings.

The workarounds can be found in GNU gnulib https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/.

  • gnulib has modules ‘mbchar’, ‘mbiter’, ‘mbuiter’ that represent multibyte characters and allow to iterate across a multibyte string with the same ease as through a unibyte string.
  • gnulib has functions mbslen and mbswidth that can be used instead of strlen when the number of characters or the number of screen columns of a string is requested.
  • gnulib has functions mbschr and mbsrrchr that are like strchr and strrchr, but work in multibyte locales.
  • gnulib has a function mbsstr that is like strstr, but works in multibyte locales.
  • gnulib has functions mbscspn, mbspbrk, mbsspn that are like strcspn, strpbrk, strspn, but work in multibyte locales.
  • gnulib has functions mbssep and mbstok_r that are like strsep and strtok_r but work in multibyte locales.
  • gnulib has functions mbscasecmp, mbsncasecmp, mbspcasecmp, and mbscasestr that are like strcasecmp, strncasecmp, and strcasestr, but work in multibyte locales. Still, the function ulc_casecmp is preferable to these functions; see below.

The second problem with the C library API is that it has some assumptions built-in that are not valid in some languages:

  • It assumes that there are only two forms of every character: uppercase and lowercase. This is not true for Croatian, where the character LETTER DZ WITH CARON comes in three forms: LATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ WITH CARON (DZ), LATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARON (Dz), LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ WITH CARON (dz).
  • It assumes that uppercasing of 1 character leads to 1 character. This is not true for German, where the LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S, when uppercased, becomes ‘SS’.
  • It assumes that there is 1:1 mapping between uppercase and lowercase forms. This is not true for the Greek sigma: GREEK CAPITAL LETTER SIGMA is the uppercase of both GREEK SMALL LETTER SIGMA and GREEK SMALL LETTER FINAL SIGMA.
  • It assumes that the upper/lowercase mappings are position independent. This is not true for the Greek sigma and the Lithuanian i.

The correct way to deal with this problem is

  1. to provide functions for titlecasing, as well as for upper- and lowercasing,
  2. to view case transformations as functions that operates on strings, rather than on characters.

This is implemented in this library, through the functions declared in <unicase.h>, see Case mappings <unicase.h>.


1.6 Unicode strings

libunistring supports Unicode strings in three representations:

  • UTF-8 strings, through the type ‘uint8_t *’. The units are bytes (uint8_t).
  • UTF-16 strings, through the type ‘uint16_t *’, The units are 16-bit memory words (uint16_t).
  • UTF-32 strings, through the type ‘uint32_t *’. The units are 32-bit memory words (uint32_t).

As with C strings, there are two variants:

  • Unicode strings with a terminating NUL character are represented as a pointer to the first unit of the string. There is a unit containing a 0 value at the end. It is considered part of the string for all memory allocation purposes, but is not considered part of the string for all other logical purposes.
  • Unicode strings where embedded NUL characters are allowed. These are represented by a pointer to the first unit and the number of units (not bytes!) of the string. In this setting, there is no trailing zero-valued unit used as “end marker”.

2 Conventions

This chapter explains conventions valid throughout the libunistring library.

Variables of type char * denote C strings in locale encoding. See Locale encodings.

Variables of type uint8_t * denote UTF-8 strings. Their units are bytes.

Variables of type uint16_t * denote UTF-16 strings, without byte order mark. Their units are 2-byte words.

Variables of type uint32_t * denote UTF-32 strings, without byte order mark. Their units are 4-byte words.

Argument pairs (s, n) denote a string s[0..n-1] with exactly n units.1

All functions with prefix ‘ulc_’ operate on C strings in locale encoding.

All functions with prefix ‘u8_’ operate on UTF-8 strings.

All functions with prefix ‘u16_’ operate on UTF-16 strings.

All functions with prefix ‘u32_’ operate on UTF-32 strings.

For every function with prefix ‘u8_’, operating on UTF-8 strings, there is also a corresponding function with prefix ‘u16_’, operating on UTF-16 strings, and a corresponding function with prefix ‘u32_’, operating on UTF-32 strings. Their description is analogous; in this documentation we describe only the function that operates on UTF-8 strings, for brevity.

A declaration with a variable n denotes the three concrete declarations with n = 8, n = 16, n = 32.

All parameters starting with ‘str’ and the parameters of functions starting with u8_str/u16_str/u32_str denote a NUL terminated string.

Error values are always returned through the errno variable, usually with a return value that indicates the presence of an error (NULL for functions that return an pointer, or -1 for functions that return an int).

Functions returning a string result take a (resultbuf, lengthp) argument pair. If resultbuf is not NULL and the result fits into *lengthp units, it is put in resultbuf, and resultbuf is returned. Otherwise, a freshly allocated string is returned. In both cases, *lengthp is set to the length (number of units) of the returned string. In case of error, NULL is returned and errno is set.

To invoke such a function:


3 Elementary types <unitypes.h>

The include file <unitypes.h> provides the following basic types.

Type: uint8_t
Type: uint16_t
Type: uint32_t

These are the storage units of UTF-8/16/32 strings, respectively. The definitions are taken from <stdint.h>, on platforms where this include file is present.

Type: ucs4_t

This type represents a single Unicode character, outside of an UTF-32 string.

The types ucs4_t and uint32_t happen to be identical. They differ in use and intent, however:


4 Elementary Unicode string functions <unistr.h>

This include file declares elementary functions for Unicode strings. It is essentially the equivalent of what <string.h> is for C strings.


4.1 Elementary string checks

The following function is available to verify the integrity of a Unicode string.

Function: const uint8_t * u8_check (const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: const uint16_t * u16_check (const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: const uint32_t * u32_check (const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

This function checks whether a Unicode string is well-formed. It returns NULL if valid, or a pointer to the first invalid unit otherwise.


4.2 Elementary string conversions

The following functions perform conversions between the different forms of Unicode strings.

Function: uint16_t * u8_to_u16 (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an UTF-8 string to an UTF-16 string.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint32_t * u8_to_u32 (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an UTF-8 string to an UTF-32 string.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint8_t * u16_to_u8 (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an UTF-16 string to an UTF-8 string.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint32_t * u16_to_u32 (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an UTF-16 string to an UTF-32 string.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint8_t * u32_to_u8 (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an UTF-32 string to an UTF-8 string.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint16_t * u32_to_u16 (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an UTF-32 string to an UTF-16 string.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.


4.3 Elementary string functions


4.3.1 Iterating over a Unicode string

The following functions inspect and return details about the first character in a Unicode string.

Function: int u8_mblen (const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u16_mblen (const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u32_mblen (const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

Returns the length (number of units) of the first character in s, which is no longer than n. Returns 0 if it is the NUL character. Returns -1 upon failure.

This function is similar to mblen, except that it operates on a Unicode string and that s must not be NULL.

Function: int u8_mbtouc (ucs4_t *puc, const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u16_mbtouc (ucs4_t *puc, const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u32_mbtouc (ucs4_t *puc, const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

Returns the length (number of units) of the first character in s, putting its ucs4_t representation in *puc. Upon failure, *puc is set to 0xfffd, and an appropriate number of units is returned.

The number of available units, n, must be > 0.

This function fails if an invalid sequence of units is encountered at the beginning of s, or if additional units (after the n provided units) would be needed to form a character.

This function is similar to mbtowc, except that it operates on a Unicode string, puc and s must not be NULL, n must be > 0, and the NUL character is not treated specially.

Function: int u8_mbtouc_unsafe (ucs4_t *puc, const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u16_mbtouc_unsafe (ucs4_t *puc, const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u32_mbtouc_unsafe (ucs4_t *puc, const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

This function is identical to u8_mbtouc/u16_mbtouc/u32_mbtouc. Earlier versions of this function performed fewer range-checks on the sequence of units.

Function: int u8_mbtoucr (ucs4_t *puc, const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u16_mbtoucr (ucs4_t *puc, const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: int u32_mbtoucr (ucs4_t *puc, const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

Returns the length (number of units) of the first character in s, putting its ucs4_t representation in *puc. Upon failure, *puc is set to 0xfffd, and -1 is returned for an invalid sequence of units, -2 is returned for an incomplete sequence of units.

The number of available units, n, must be > 0.

This function is similar to u8_mbtouc, except that the return value gives more details about the failure, similar to mbrtowc.


4.3.2 Creating Unicode strings one character at a time

The following function stores a Unicode character as a Unicode string in memory.

Function: int u8_uctomb (uint8_t *s, ucs4_t uc, ptrdiff_t n)
Function: int u16_uctomb (uint16_t *s, ucs4_t uc, ptrdiff_t n)
Function: int u32_uctomb (uint32_t *s, ucs4_t uc, ptrdiff_t n)

Puts the multibyte character represented by uc in s, returning its length. Returns -1 upon failure, -2 if the number of available units, n, is too small. The latter case cannot occur if n >= 6/2/1, respectively.

This function is similar to wctomb, except that it operates on a Unicode strings, s must not be NULL, and the argument n must be specified.


4.3.3 Copying Unicode strings

The following functions copy Unicode strings in memory.

Function: uint8_t * u8_cpy (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_cpy (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_cpy (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src, size_t n)

Copies n units from src to dest.

This function is similar to memcpy, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_pcpy (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_pcpy (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_pcpy (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src, size_t n)

Copies n units from src to dest, returning a pointer after the last written unit.

This function is similar to mempcpy, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_move (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_move (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_move (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src, size_t n)

Copies n units from src to dest, guaranteeing correct behavior for overlapping memory areas.

This function is similar to memmove, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

The following function fills a Unicode string.

Function: uint8_t * u8_set (uint8_t *s, ucs4_t uc, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_set (uint16_t *s, ucs4_t uc, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_set (uint32_t *s, ucs4_t uc, size_t n)

Sets the first n characters of s to uc. uc should be a character that occupies only 1 unit.

This function is similar to memset, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.3.4 Comparing Unicode strings

The following function compares two Unicode strings of the same length.

Function: int u8_cmp (const uint8_t *s1, const uint8_t *s2, size_t n)
Function: int u16_cmp (const uint16_t *s1, const uint16_t *s2, size_t n)
Function: int u32_cmp (const uint32_t *s1, const uint32_t *s2, size_t n)

Compares s1 and s2, each of length n, lexicographically. Returns a negative value if s1 compares smaller than s2, a positive value if s1 compares larger than s2, or 0 if they compare equal.

This function is similar to memcmp, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

The following function compares two Unicode strings of possibly different lengths.

Function: int u8_cmp2 (const uint8_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint8_t *s2, size_t n2)
Function: int u16_cmp2 (const uint16_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint16_t *s2, size_t n2)
Function: int u32_cmp2 (const uint32_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint32_t *s2, size_t n2)

Compares s1 and s2, lexicographically. Returns a negative value if s1 compares smaller than s2, a positive value if s1 compares larger than s2, or 0 if they compare equal.

This function is similar to the gnulib function memcmp2, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.3.5 Searching for a character in a Unicode string

The following function searches for a given Unicode character.

Function: uint8_t * u8_chr (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, ucs4_t uc)
Function: uint16_t * u16_chr (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, ucs4_t uc)
Function: uint32_t * u32_chr (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, ucs4_t uc)

Searches the string at s for uc. Returns a pointer to the first occurrence of uc in s, or NULL if uc does not occur in s.

This function is similar to memchr, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.3.6 Counting the characters in a Unicode string

The following function counts the number of Unicode characters.

Function: size_t u8_mbsnlen (const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: size_t u16_mbsnlen (const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: size_t u32_mbsnlen (const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

Counts and returns the number of Unicode characters in the n units from s.

This function is similar to the gnulib function mbsnlen, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.4 Elementary string functions with memory allocation

The following function copies a Unicode string.

Function: uint8_t * u8_cpy_alloc (const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_cpy_alloc (const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_cpy_alloc (const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

Makes a freshly allocated copy of s, of length n.


4.5 Elementary string functions on NUL terminated strings


4.5.1 Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string

The following functions inspect and return details about the first character in a Unicode string.

Function: int u8_strmblen (const uint8_t *s)
Function: int u16_strmblen (const uint16_t *s)
Function: int u32_strmblen (const uint32_t *s)

Returns the length (number of units) of the first character in s. Returns 0 if it is the NUL character. Returns -1 upon failure.

Function: int u8_strmbtouc (ucs4_t *puc, const uint8_t *s)
Function: int u16_strmbtouc (ucs4_t *puc, const uint16_t *s)
Function: int u32_strmbtouc (ucs4_t *puc, const uint32_t *s)

Returns the length (number of units) of the first character in s, putting its ucs4_t representation in *puc. Returns 0 if it is the NUL character. Returns -1 upon failure.

Function: const uint8_t * u8_next (ucs4_t *puc, const uint8_t *s)
Function: const uint16_t * u16_next (ucs4_t *puc, const uint16_t *s)
Function: const uint32_t * u32_next (ucs4_t *puc, const uint32_t *s)

Forward iteration step. Advances the pointer past the next character, or returns NULL if the end of the string has been reached. Puts the character’s ucs4_t representation in *puc.

The following function inspects and returns details about the previous character in a Unicode string.

Function: const uint8_t * u8_prev (ucs4_t *puc, const uint8_t *s, const uint8_t *start)
Function: const uint16_t * u16_prev (ucs4_t *puc, const uint16_t *s, const uint16_t *start)
Function: const uint32_t * u32_prev (ucs4_t *puc, const uint32_t *s, const uint32_t *start)

Backward iteration step. Advances the pointer to point to the previous character (the one that ends at s), or returns NULL if the beginning of the string (specified by start) had been reached. Puts the character’s ucs4_t representation in *puc. Note that this function works only on well-formed Unicode strings.


4.5.2 Length of a NUL terminated Unicode string

The following functions determine the length of a Unicode string.

Function: size_t u8_strlen (const uint8_t *s)
Function: size_t u16_strlen (const uint16_t *s)
Function: size_t u32_strlen (const uint32_t *s)

Returns the number of units in s.

This function is similar to strlen and wcslen, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: size_t u8_strnlen (const uint8_t *s, size_t maxlen)
Function: size_t u16_strnlen (const uint16_t *s, size_t maxlen)
Function: size_t u32_strnlen (const uint32_t *s, size_t maxlen)

Returns the number of units in s, but at most maxlen.

This function is similar to strnlen and wcsnlen, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.5.3 Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string

The following functions copy portions of Unicode strings in memory.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strcpy (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strcpy (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strcpy (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src)

Copies src to dest.

This function is similar to strcpy and wcscpy, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_stpcpy (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src)
Function: uint16_t * u16_stpcpy (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src)
Function: uint32_t * u32_stpcpy (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src)

Copies src to dest, returning the address of the terminating NUL in dest.

This function is similar to stpcpy, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strncpy (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strncpy (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strncpy (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src, size_t n)

Copies no more than n units of src to dest.

This function is similar to strncpy and wcsncpy, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_stpncpy (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_stpncpy (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_stpncpy (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src, size_t n)

Copies no more than n units of src to dest. Returns a pointer past the last non-NUL unit written into dest. In other words, if the units written into dest include a NUL, the return value is the address of the first such NUL unit, otherwise it is dest + n.

This function is similar to stpncpy, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strcat (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strcat (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strcat (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src)

Appends src onto dest.

This function is similar to strcat and wcscat, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strncat (uint8_t *dest, const uint8_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strncat (uint16_t *dest, const uint16_t *src, size_t n)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strncat (uint32_t *dest, const uint32_t *src, size_t n)

Appends no more than n units of src onto dest.

This function is similar to strncat and wcsncat, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.5.4 Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings

The following functions compare two Unicode strings. They ignore locale-dependent collation rules.

Function: int u8_strcmp (const uint8_t *s1, const uint8_t *s2)
Function: int u16_strcmp (const uint16_t *s1, const uint16_t *s2)
Function: int u32_strcmp (const uint32_t *s1, const uint32_t *s2)

Compares s1 and s2, lexicographically. Returns a negative value if s1 compares smaller than s2, a positive value if s1 compares larger than s2, or 0 if they compare equal.

This function is similar to strcmp and wcscmp, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: int u8_strcoll (const uint8_t *s1, const uint8_t *s2)
Function: int u16_strcoll (const uint16_t *s1, const uint16_t *s2)
Function: int u32_strcoll (const uint32_t *s1, const uint32_t *s2)

Compares s1 and s2 using the collation rules of the current locale. Returns -1 if s1 < s2, 0 if s1 = s2, 1 if s1 > s2. Upon failure, sets errno and returns any value.

This function is similar to strcoll and wcscoll, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Note that this function may consider different canonical normalizations of the same string as having a large distance. It is therefore better to use the function u8_normcoll instead of this one; see Normalization forms (composition and decomposition) <uninorm.h>.

Function: int u8_strncmp (const uint8_t *s1, const uint8_t *s2, size_t n)
Function: int u16_strncmp (const uint16_t *s1, const uint16_t *s2, size_t n)
Function: int u32_strncmp (const uint32_t *s1, const uint32_t *s2, size_t n)

Compares no more than n units of s1 and s2.

This function is similar to strncmp and wcsncmp, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.5.5 Duplicating a NUL terminated Unicode string

The following function allocates a duplicate of a Unicode string.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strdup (const uint8_t *s)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strdup (const uint16_t *s)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strdup (const uint32_t *s)

Duplicates s, returning an identical malloc’d string.

This function is similar to strdup and wcsdup, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.5.6 Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string

The following functions search for a given Unicode character.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strchr (const uint8_t *str, ucs4_t uc)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strchr (const uint16_t *str, ucs4_t uc)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strchr (const uint32_t *str, ucs4_t uc)

Finds the first occurrence of uc in str.

This function is similar to strchr and wcschr, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strrchr (const uint8_t *str, ucs4_t uc)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strrchr (const uint16_t *str, ucs4_t uc)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strrchr (const uint32_t *str, ucs4_t uc)

Finds the last occurrence of uc in str.

This function is similar to strrchr and wcsrchr, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

The following functions search for the first occurrence of some Unicode character in or outside a given set of Unicode characters.

Function: size_t u8_strcspn (const uint8_t *str, const uint8_t *reject)
Function: size_t u16_strcspn (const uint16_t *str, const uint16_t *reject)
Function: size_t u32_strcspn (const uint32_t *str, const uint32_t *reject)

Returns the length of the initial segment of str which consists entirely of Unicode characters not in reject.

This function is similar to strcspn and wcscspn, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: size_t u8_strspn (const uint8_t *str, const uint8_t *accept)
Function: size_t u16_strspn (const uint16_t *str, const uint16_t *accept)
Function: size_t u32_strspn (const uint32_t *str, const uint32_t *accept)

Returns the length of the initial segment of str which consists entirely of Unicode characters in accept.

This function is similar to strspn and wcsspn, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strpbrk (const uint8_t *str, const uint8_t *accept)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strpbrk (const uint16_t *str, const uint16_t *accept)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strpbrk (const uint32_t *str, const uint32_t *accept)

Finds the first occurrence in str of any character in accept.

This function is similar to strpbrk and wcspbrk, except that it operates on Unicode strings.


4.5.7 Searching for a substring in a NUL terminated Unicode string

The following functions search whether a given Unicode string is a substring of another Unicode string.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strstr (const uint8_t *haystack, const uint8_t *needle)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strstr (const uint16_t *haystack, const uint16_t *needle)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strstr (const uint32_t *haystack, const uint32_t *needle)

Finds the first occurrence of needle in haystack.

This function is similar to strstr and wcsstr, except that it operates on Unicode strings.

Function: bool u8_startswith (const uint8_t *str, const uint8_t *prefix)
Function: bool u16_startswith (const uint16_t *str, const uint16_t *prefix)
Function: bool u32_startswith (const uint32_t *str, const uint32_t *prefix)

Tests whether str starts with prefix.

Function: bool u8_endswith (const uint8_t *str, const uint8_t *suffix)
Function: bool u16_endswith (const uint16_t *str, const uint16_t *suffix)
Function: bool u32_endswith (const uint32_t *str, const uint32_t *suffix)

Tests whether str ends with suffix.


4.5.8 Tokenizing a NUL terminated Unicode string

The following function does one step in tokenizing a Unicode string.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strtok (uint8_t *str, const uint8_t *delim, uint8_t **ptr)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strtok (uint16_t *str, const uint16_t *delim, uint16_t **ptr)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strtok (uint32_t *str, const uint32_t *delim, uint32_t **ptr)

Divides str into tokens separated by characters in delim.

This function is similar to strtok_r and wcstok, except that it operates on Unicode strings. Its interface is actually more similar to wcstok than to strtok.


5 Conversions between Unicode and encodings <uniconv.h>

This include file declares functions for converting between Unicode strings and char * strings in locale encoding or in other specified encodings.

The following function returns the locale encoding.

Function: const char * locale_charset ()

Determines the current locale’s character encoding, and canonicalizes it into one of the canonical names listed in localcharset.h. If the canonical name cannot be determined, the result is a non-canonical name.

The result must not be freed; it is statically allocated.

The result of this function can be used as an argument to the iconv_open function in GNU libc, in GNU libiconv, or in the gnulib provided wrapper around the native iconv_open function. It may not work as an argument to the native iconv_open function directly.

The handling of unconvertible characters during the conversions can be parametrized through the following enumeration type:

Type: enum iconv_ilseq_handler

This type specifies how unconvertible characters in the input are handled.

Constant: enum iconv_ilseq_handler iconveh_error

This handler causes the function to return with errno set to EILSEQ.

Constant: enum iconv_ilseq_handler iconveh_question_mark

This handler produces one question mark ‘?’ per unconvertible character.

Constant: enum iconv_ilseq_handler iconveh_question_replacement_character

This handler produces one U+FFFD per unconvertible character if that fits in the target encoding, otherwise one question mark ‘?’ per unconvertible character.

Constant: enum iconv_ilseq_handler iconveh_escape_sequence

This handler produces an escape sequence \uxxxx or \Uxxxxxxxx for each unconvertible character.

The following functions convert between strings in a specified encoding and Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_conv_from_encoding (const char *fromcode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler, const char *src, size_t srclen, size_t *offsets, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_conv_from_encoding (const char *fromcode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler, const char *src, size_t srclen, size_t *offsets, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_conv_from_encoding (const char *fromcode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler, const char *src, size_t srclen, size_t *offsets, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an entire string, possibly including NUL bytes, from one encoding to UTF-8 encoding.

Converts a memory region given in encoding fromcode. fromcode is as for the iconv_open function.

The input is in the memory region between src (inclusive) and src + srclen (exclusive).

If offsets is not NULL, it should point to an array of srclen integers; this array is filled with offsets into the result, i.e. the character starting at src[i] corresponds to the character starting at result[offsets[i]], and other offsets are set to (size_t)(-1).

resultbuf and *lengthp should be a scratch buffer and its size, or resultbuf can be NULL.

May erase the contents of the memory at resultbuf.

If successful: The resulting Unicode string (non-NULL) is returned and its length stored in *lengthp. The resulting string is resultbuf if no dynamic memory allocation was necessary, or a freshly allocated memory block otherwise.

In case of error: NULL is returned and errno is set. Particular errno values: EINVAL, EILSEQ, ENOMEM.

Function: char * u8_conv_to_encoding (const char *tocode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler, const uint8_t *src, size_t srclen, size_t *offsets, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: char * u16_conv_to_encoding (const char *tocode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler, const uint16_t *src, size_t srclen, size_t *offsets, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: char * u32_conv_to_encoding (const char *tocode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler, const uint32_t *src, size_t srclen, size_t *offsets, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts an entire Unicode string, possibly including NUL units, from UTF-8 encoding to a given encoding.

Converts a memory region to encoding tocode. tocode is as for the iconv_open function.

The input is in the memory region between src (inclusive) and src + srclen (exclusive).

If offsets is not NULL, it should point to an array of srclen integers; this array is filled with offsets into the result, i.e. the character starting at src[i] corresponds to the character starting at result[offsets[i]], and other offsets are set to (size_t)(-1).

resultbuf and *lengthp should be a scratch buffer and its size, or resultbuf can be NULL.

May erase the contents of the memory at resultbuf.

If successful: The resulting Unicode string (non-NULL) is returned and its length stored in *lengthp. The resulting string is resultbuf if no dynamic memory allocation was necessary, or a freshly allocated memory block otherwise.

In case of error: NULL is returned and errno is set. Particular errno values: EINVAL, EILSEQ, ENOMEM.

The following functions convert between NUL terminated strings in a specified encoding and NUL terminated Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strconv_from_encoding (const char *string, const char *fromcode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strconv_from_encoding (const char *string, const char *fromcode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strconv_from_encoding (const char *string, const char *fromcode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler)

Converts a NUL terminated string from a given encoding.

The result is malloc allocated, or NULL (with errno set) in case of error.

Particular errno values: EILSEQ, ENOMEM.

Function: char * u8_strconv_to_encoding (const uint8_t *string, const char *tocode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler)
Function: char * u16_strconv_to_encoding (const uint16_t *string, const char *tocode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler)
Function: char * u32_strconv_to_encoding (const uint32_t *string, const char *tocode, enum iconv_ilseq_handler handler)

Converts a NUL terminated string to a given encoding.

The result is malloc allocated, or NULL (with errno set) in case of error.

Particular errno values: EILSEQ, ENOMEM.

The following functions are shorthands that convert between NUL terminated strings in locale encoding and NUL terminated Unicode strings.

Function: uint8_t * u8_strconv_from_locale (const char *string)
Function: uint16_t * u16_strconv_from_locale (const char *string)
Function: uint32_t * u32_strconv_from_locale (const char *string)

Converts a NUL terminated string from the locale encoding.

The result is malloc allocated, or NULL (with errno set) in case of error.

Particular errno values: ENOMEM.

Function: char * u8_strconv_to_locale (const uint8_t *string)
Function: char * u16_strconv_to_locale (const uint16_t *string)
Function: char * u32_strconv_to_locale (const uint32_t *string)

Converts a NUL terminated string to the locale encoding.

The result is malloc allocated, or NULL (with errno set) in case of error.

Particular errno values: ENOMEM.


6 Output with Unicode strings <unistdio.h>

This include file declares functions for doing formatted output with Unicode strings. It defines a set of functions similar to fprintf and sprintf, which are declared in <stdio.h>.

These functions work like the printf function family. In the format string:

A function name with an infix ‘v’ indicates that a va_list is passed instead of multiple arguments.

The functions *sprintf have a buf argument that is assumed to be large enough. (DANGEROUS! Overflowing the buffer will crash the program.)

The functions *snprintf have a buf argument that is assumed to be size units large. (DANGEROUS! The resulting string might be truncated in the middle of a multibyte character.)

The functions *asprintf have a resultp argument. The result will be freshly allocated and stored in *resultp.

The functions *asnprintf have a (resultbuf, lengthp) argument pair. If resultbuf is not NULL and the result fits into *lengthp units, it is put in resultbuf, and resultbuf is returned. Otherwise, a freshly allocated string is returned. In both cases, *lengthp is set to the length (number of units) of the returned string. In case of error, NULL is returned and errno is set.

The following functions take an ASCII format string and return a result that is a char * string in locale encoding.

Function: int ulc_sprintf (char *buf, const char *format, ...)
Function: int ulc_snprintf (char *buf, size_t size, const char *format, ...)
Function: int ulc_asprintf (char **resultp, const char *format, ...)
Function: char * ulc_asnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, ...)
Function: int ulc_vsprintf (char *buf, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int ulc_vsnprintf (char *buf, size_t size, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int ulc_vasprintf (char **resultp, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: char * ulc_vasnprintf (char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, va_list ap)

The following functions take an ASCII format string and return a result in UTF-8 format.

Function: int u8_sprintf (uint8_t *buf, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u8_snprintf (uint8_t *buf, size_t size, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u8_asprintf (uint8_t **resultp, const char *format, ...)
Function: uint8_t * u8_asnprintf (uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u8_vsprintf (uint8_t *buf, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u8_vsnprintf (uint8_t *buf, size_t size, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u8_vasprintf (uint8_t **resultp, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: uint8_t * u8_vasnprintf (uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, va_list ap)

The following functions take an UTF-8 format string and return a result in UTF-8 format.

Function: int u8_u8_sprintf (uint8_t *buf, const uint8_t *format, ...)
Function: int u8_u8_snprintf (uint8_t *buf, size_t size, const uint8_t *format, ...)
Function: int u8_u8_asprintf (uint8_t **resultp, const uint8_t *format, ...)
Function: uint8_t * u8_u8_asnprintf (uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const uint8_t *format, ...)
Function: int u8_u8_vsprintf (uint8_t *buf, const uint8_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u8_u8_vsnprintf (uint8_t *buf, size_t size, const uint8_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u8_u8_vasprintf (uint8_t **resultp, const uint8_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: uint8_t * u8_u8_vasnprintf (uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const uint8_t *format, va_list ap)

The following functions take an ASCII format string and return a result in UTF-16 format.

Function: int u16_sprintf (uint16_t *buf, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u16_snprintf (uint16_t *buf, size_t size, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u16_asprintf (uint16_t **resultp, const char *format, ...)
Function: uint16_t * u16_asnprintf (uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u16_vsprintf (uint16_t *buf, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u16_vsnprintf (uint16_t *buf, size_t size, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u16_vasprintf (uint16_t **resultp, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: uint16_t * u16_vasnprintf (uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, va_list ap)

The following functions take an UTF-16 format string and return a result in UTF-16 format.

Function: int u16_u16_sprintf (uint16_t *buf, const uint16_t *format, ...)
Function: int u16_u16_snprintf (uint16_t *buf, size_t size, const uint16_t *format, ...)
Function: int u16_u16_asprintf (uint16_t **resultp, const uint16_t *format, ...)
Function: uint16_t * u16_u16_asnprintf (uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const uint16_t *format, ...)
Function: int u16_u16_vsprintf (uint16_t *buf, const uint16_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u16_u16_vsnprintf (uint16_t *buf, size_t size, const uint16_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u16_u16_vasprintf (uint16_t **resultp, const uint16_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: uint16_t * u16_u16_vasnprintf (uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const uint16_t *format, va_list ap)

The following functions take an ASCII format string and return a result in UTF-32 format.

Function: int u32_sprintf (uint32_t *buf, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u32_snprintf (uint32_t *buf, size_t size, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u32_asprintf (uint32_t **resultp, const char *format, ...)
Function: uint32_t * u32_asnprintf (uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, ...)
Function: int u32_vsprintf (uint32_t *buf, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u32_vsnprintf (uint32_t *buf, size_t size, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u32_vasprintf (uint32_t **resultp, const char *format, va_list ap)
Function: uint32_t * u32_vasnprintf (uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const char *format, va_list ap)

The following functions take an UTF-32 format string and return a result in UTF-32 format.

Function: int u32_u32_sprintf (uint32_t *buf, const uint32_t *format, ...)
Function: int u32_u32_snprintf (uint32_t *buf, size_t size, const uint32_t *format, ...)
Function: int u32_u32_asprintf (uint32_t **resultp, const uint32_t *format, ...)
Function: uint32_t * u32_u32_asnprintf (uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const uint32_t *format, ...)
Function: int u32_u32_vsprintf (uint32_t *buf, const uint32_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u32_u32_vsnprintf (uint32_t *buf, size_t size, const uint32_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: int u32_u32_vasprintf (uint32_t **resultp, const uint32_t *format, va_list ap)
Function: uint32_t * u32_u32_vasnprintf (uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp, const uint32_t *format, va_list ap)

The following functions take an ASCII format string and produce output in locale encoding to a FILE stream.

Function: int ulc_fprintf (FILE *stream, const char *format, ...)
Function: int ulc_vfprintf (FILE *stream, const char *format, va_list ap)

7 Names of Unicode characters <uniname.h>

This include file implements the association between a Unicode character and its name.

The name of a Unicode character allows to distinguish it from other, similar looking characters. For example, the character ‘x’ has the name "LATIN SMALL LETTER X" and is therefore different from the character named "MULTIPLICATION SIGN".

Macro: unsigned int UNINAME_MAX

This macro expands to a constant that is the required size of buffer for a Unicode character name.

Function: char * unicode_character_name (ucs4_t uc, char *buf)

Looks up the name of a Unicode character, in uppercase ASCII. buf must point to a buffer, at least UNINAME_MAX bytes in size. Returns the filled buf, or NULL if the character does not have a name.

Function: ucs4_t unicode_name_character (const char *name)

Looks up the Unicode character with a given name, in upper- or lowercase ASCII. NAME can also be an alias name of a character. Returns the character if found, or UNINAME_INVALID if not found.

Macro: ucs4_t UNINAME_INVALID

This macro expands to a constant that is a special return value of the unicode_name_character function.


8 Unicode character classification and properties <unictype.h>

This include file declares functions that classify Unicode characters and that test whether Unicode characters have specific properties.

The classification assigns a “general category” to every Unicode character. This is similar to the classification provided by ISO C in <wctype.h>.

Properties are the data that guides various text processing algorithms in the presence of specific Unicode characters.


8.1 General category

Every Unicode character or code point has a general category assigned to it. This classification is important for most algorithms that work on Unicode text.

The GNU libunistring library provides two kinds of API for working with general categories. The object oriented API uses a variable to denote every predefined general category value or combinations thereof. The low-level API uses a bit mask instead. The advantage of the object oriented API is that if only a few predefined general category values are used, the data tables are relatively small. When you combine general category values (using uc_general_category_or, uc_general_category_and, or uc_general_category_and_not), or when you use the low level bit masks, a big table is used thats holds the complete general category information for all Unicode characters.


8.1.1 The object oriented API for general category

Type: uc_general_category_t

This data type denotes a general category value. It is an immediate type that can be copied by simple assignment, without involving memory allocation. It is not an array type.

The following are the predefined general category value. Additional general categories may be added in the future.

The UC_CATEGORY_* constants reflect the systematic general category values assigned by the Unicode Consortium. Whereas the other UC_* macros are aliases, for use when readable code is preferred.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_L
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_LETTER

This represents the general category “Letter”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_LC
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_CASED_LETTER
Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Lu
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_UPPERCASE_LETTER

This represents the general category “Letter, uppercase”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Ll
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_LOWERCASE_LETTER

This represents the general category “Letter, lowercase”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Lt
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_TITLECASE_LETTER

This represents the general category “Letter, titlecase”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Lm
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_MODIFIER_LETTER

This represents the general category “Letter, modifier”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Lo
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_OTHER_LETTER

This represents the general category “Letter, other”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_M
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_MARK

This represents the general category “Marker”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Mn
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_NON_SPACING_MARK

This represents the general category “Marker, nonspacing”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Mc
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_COMBINING_SPACING_MARK

This represents the general category “Marker, spacing combining”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Me
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_ENCLOSING_MARK

This represents the general category “Marker, enclosing”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_N
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_NUMBER

This represents the general category “Number”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Nd
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_DECIMAL_DIGIT_NUMBER

This represents the general category “Number, decimal digit”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Nl
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_LETTER_NUMBER

This represents the general category “Number, letter”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_No
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_OTHER_NUMBER

This represents the general category “Number, other”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_P
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Pc
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_CONNECTOR_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation, connector”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Pd
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_DASH_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation, dash”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Ps
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_OPEN_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation, open”, a.k.a. “start punctuation”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Pe
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_CLOSE_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation, close”, a.k.a. “end punctuation”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Pi
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_INITIAL_QUOTE_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation, initial quote”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Pf
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_FINAL_QUOTE_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation, final quote”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Po
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_OTHER_PUNCTUATION

This represents the general category “Punctuation, other”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_S
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_SYMBOL

This represents the general category “Symbol”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Sm
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_MATH_SYMBOL

This represents the general category “Symbol, math”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Sc
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_CURRENCY_SYMBOL

This represents the general category “Symbol, currency”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Sk
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_MODIFIER_SYMBOL

This represents the general category “Symbol, modifier”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_So
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_OTHER_SYMBOL

This represents the general category “Symbol, other”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Z
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_SEPARATOR

This represents the general category “Separator”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Zs
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_SPACE_SEPARATOR

This represents the general category “Separator, space”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Zl
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_LINE_SEPARATOR

This represents the general category “Separator, line”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Zp
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR

This represents the general category “Separator, paragraph”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_C
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_OTHER

This represents the general category “Other”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Cc
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_CONTROL

This represents the general category “Other, control”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Cf
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_FORMAT

This represents the general category “Other, format”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Cs
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_SURROGATE

This represents the general category “Other, surrogate”. All code points in this category are invalid characters.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Co
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_PRIVATE_USE

This represents the general category “Other, private use”.

Constant: uc_general_category_t UC_CATEGORY_Cn
Macro: uc_general_category_t UC_UNASSIGNED

This represents the general category “Other, not assigned”. Some code points in this category are invalid characters.

The following functions combine general categories, like in a boolean algebra, except that there is no ‘not’ operation.

Function: uc_general_category_t uc_general_category_or (uc_general_category_t category1, uc_general_category_t category2)

Returns the union of two general categories. This corresponds to the unions of the two sets of characters.

Function: uc_general_category_t uc_general_category_and (uc_general_category_t category1, uc_general_category_t category2)

Returns the intersection of two general categories as bit masks. This does not correspond to the intersection of the two sets of characters.

Function: uc_general_category_t uc_general_category_and_not (uc_general_category_t category1, uc_general_category_t category2)

Returns the intersection of a general category with the complement of a second general category, as bit masks. This does not correspond to the intersection with complement, when viewing the categories as sets of characters.

The following functions associate general categories with their name.

Function: const char * uc_general_category_name (uc_general_category_t category)

Returns the name of a general category, more precisely, the abbreviated name. Returns NULL if the general category corresponds to a bit mask that does not have a name.

Function: const char * uc_general_category_long_name (uc_general_category_t category)

Returns the long name of a general category. Returns NULL if the general category corresponds to a bit mask that does not have a name.

Function: uc_general_category_t uc_general_category_byname (const char *category_name)

Returns the general category given by name, e.g. "Lu", or by long name, e.g. "Uppercase Letter". This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators and is case-insignificant.

The following functions view general categories as sets of Unicode characters.

Function: uc_general_category_t uc_general_category (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the general category of a Unicode character.

This function uses a big table.

Function: bool uc_is_general_category (ucs4_t uc, uc_general_category_t category)

Tests whether a Unicode character belongs to a given category. The category argument can be a predefined general category or the combination of several predefined general categories.


8.1.2 The bit mask API for general category

The following are the predefined general category value as bit masks. Additional general categories may be added in the future.

Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_L
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_LC
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Lu
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Ll
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Lt
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Lm
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Lo
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_M
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Mn
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Mc
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Me
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_N
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Nd
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Nl
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_No
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_P
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Pc
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Pd
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Ps
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Pe
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Pi
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Pf
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Po
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_S
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Sm
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Sc
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Sk
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_So
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Z
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Zs
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Zl
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Zp
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_C
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Cc
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Cf
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Cs
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Co
Macro: uint32_t UC_CATEGORY_MASK_Cn

The following function views general categories as sets of Unicode characters.

Function: bool uc_is_general_category_withtable (ucs4_t uc, uint32_t bitmask)

Tests whether a Unicode character belongs to a given category. The bitmask argument can be a predefined general category bitmask or the combination of several predefined general category bitmasks.

This function uses a big table comprising all general categories.


8.2 Canonical combining class

Every Unicode character or code point has a canonical combining class assigned to it.

What is the meaning of the canonical combining class? Essentially, it indicates the priority with which a combining character is attached to its base character. The characters for which the canonical combining class is 0 are the base characters, and the characters for which it is greater than 0 are the combining characters. Combining characters are rendered near/attached/around their base character, and combining characters with small combining classes are attached "first" or "closer" to the base character.

The canonical combining class of a character is a number in the range 0..255. The possible values are described in the Unicode Character Database https://www.unicode.org/Public/UNIDATA/UCD.html. The list here is not definitive; more values can be added in future versions.

Constant: int UC_CCC_NR

The canonical combining class value for “Not Reordered” characters. The value is 0.

Constant: int UC_CCC_OV

The canonical combining class value for “Overlay” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_NK

The canonical combining class value for “Nukta” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_KV

The canonical combining class value for “Kana Voicing” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_VR

The canonical combining class value for “Virama” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_ATBL

The canonical combining class value for “Attached Below Left” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_ATB

The canonical combining class value for “Attached Below” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_ATA

The canonical combining class value for “Attached Above” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_ATAR

The canonical combining class value for “Attached Above Right” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_BL

The canonical combining class value for “Below Left” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_B

The canonical combining class value for “Below” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_BR

The canonical combining class value for “Below Right” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_L

The canonical combining class value for “Left” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_R

The canonical combining class value for “Right” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_AL

The canonical combining class value for “Above Left” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_A

The canonical combining class value for “Above” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_AR

The canonical combining class value for “Above Right” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_DB

The canonical combining class value for “Double Below” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_DA

The canonical combining class value for “Double Above” characters.

Constant: int UC_CCC_IS

The canonical combining class value for “Iota Subscript” characters.

The following functions associate canonical combining classes with their name.

Function: const char * uc_combining_class_name (int ccc)

Returns the name of a canonical combining class, more precisely, the abbreviated name. Returns NULL if the canonical combining class is a numeric value without a name.

Function: const char * uc_combining_class_long_name (int ccc)

Returns the long name of a canonical combining class. Returns NULL if the canonical combining class is a numeric value without a name.

Function: int uc_combining_class_byname (const char *ccc_name)

Returns the canonical combining class given by name, e.g. "BL", or by long name, e.g. "Below Left". This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators and is case-insignificant.

The following function looks up the canonical combining class of a character.

Function: int uc_combining_class (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the canonical combining class of a Unicode character.


8.3 Bidi class

Every Unicode character or code point has a bidi class assigned to it. Before Unicode 4.0, this concept was known as bidirectional category.

The bidi class guides the bidirectional algorithm (https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr9/). The possible values are the following.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_L

The bidi class for ‘Left-to-Right‘” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_LRE

The bidi class for “Left-to-Right Embedding” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_LRO

The bidi class for “Left-to-Right Override” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_R

The bidi class for “Right-to-Left” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_AL

The bidi class for “Right-to-Left Arabic” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_RLE

The bidi class for “Right-to-Left Embedding” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_RLO

The bidi class for “Right-to-Left Override” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_PDF

The bidi class for “Pop Directional Format” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_EN

The bidi class for “European Number” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_ES

The bidi class for “European Number Separator” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_ET

The bidi class for “European Number Terminator” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_AN

The bidi class for “Arabic Number” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_CS

The bidi class for “Common Number Separator” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_NSM

The bidi class for “Non-Spacing Mark” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_BN

The bidi class for “Boundary Neutral” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_B

The bidi class for “Paragraph Separator” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_S

The bidi class for “Segment Separator” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_WS

The bidi class for “Whitespace” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_ON

The bidi class for “Other Neutral” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_LRI

The bidi class for “Left-to-Right Isolate” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_RLI

The bidi class for “Right-to-Left Isolate” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_FSI

The bidi class for “First Strong Isolate” characters.

Constant: int UC_BIDI_PDI

The bidi class for “Pop Directional Isolate” characters.

The following functions implement the association between a bidirectional category and its name.

Function: const char * uc_bidi_class_name (int bidi_class)
Function: const char * uc_bidi_category_name (int category)

Returns the name of a bidi class, more precisely, the abbreviated name.

Function: const char * uc_bidi_class_long_name (int bidi_class)

Returns the long name of a bidi class.

Function: int uc_bidi_class_byname (const char *bidi_class_name)
Function: int uc_bidi_category_byname (const char *category_name)

Returns the bidi class given by name, e.g. "LRE", or by long name, e.g. "Left-to-Right Embedding". This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators and is case-insignificant.

The following functions view bidirectional categories as sets of Unicode characters.

Function: int uc_bidi_class (ucs4_t uc)
Function: int uc_bidi_category (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the bidi class of a Unicode character.

Function: bool uc_is_bidi_class (ucs4_t uc, int bidi_class)
Function: bool uc_is_bidi_category (ucs4_t uc, int category)

Tests whether a Unicode character belongs to a given bidi class.


8.4 Decimal digit value

Decimal digits (like the digits from ‘0’ to ‘9’) exist in many scripts. The following function converts a decimal digit character to its numerical value.

Function: int uc_decimal_value (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the decimal digit value of a Unicode character. The return value is an integer in the range 0..9, or -1 for characters that do not represent a decimal digit.


8.5 Digit value

Digit characters are like decimal digit characters, possibly in special forms, like as superscript, subscript, or circled. The following function converts a digit character to its numerical value.

Function: int uc_digit_value (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the digit value of a Unicode character. The return value is an integer in the range 0..9, or -1 for characters that do not represent a digit.


8.6 Numeric value

There are also characters that represent numbers without a digit system, like the Roman numerals, and fractional numbers, like 1/4 or 3/4.

The following type represents the numeric value of a Unicode character.

Type: uc_fraction_t

This is a structure type with the following fields:

int numerator;
int denominator;

An integer n is represented by numerator = n, denominator = 1.

The following function converts a number character to its numerical value.

Function: uc_fraction_t uc_numeric_value (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the numeric value of a Unicode character. The return value is a fraction, or the pseudo-fraction { 0, 0 } for characters that do not represent a number.


8.7 Mirrored character

Character mirroring is used to associate the closing parenthesis character to the opening parenthesis character, the closing brace character with the opening brace character, and so on.

The following function looks up the mirrored character of a Unicode character.

Function: bool uc_mirror_char (ucs4_t uc, ucs4_t *puc)

Stores the mirrored character of a Unicode character uc in *puc and returns true, if it exists. Otherwise it stores uc unmodified in *puc and returns false.

Note: It is possible for this function to return true and set *puc to 0xFFFD. This happens when the character has the bidi mirror property (that is, it should be displayed through a mirrored glyph) but this mirrored glyph does not exist as a Unicode character; thus a rendering engine needs to synthesize it artificially or pick it from an appropriate font. This affects mostly mathematical operators. See section “Bidi Mirrored” of the Unicode standard.


8.8 Arabic shaping

When Arabic characters are rendered, after bidi reordering has taken place, the shape of the glyphs are modified so that many adjacent glyphs are joined. Two character properties describe how this “Arabic shaping” takes place: the joining type and the joining group.


8.8.1 Joining type of Arabic characters

The joining type of a character describes on which of the left and right neighbour characters the character’s shape depends, and which of the two neighbour characters are rendered depending on this character.

The joining type has the following possible values:

Constant: int UC_JOINING_TYPE_U

“Non joining”: Characters of this joining type prohibit joining.

Constant: int UC_JOINING_TYPE_T

“Transparent”: Characters of this joining type are skipped when considering joining.

Constant: int UC_JOINING_TYPE_C

“Join causing”: Characters of this joining type cause their neighbour characters to change their shapes but don’t change their own shape.

Constant: int UC_JOINING_TYPE_L

“Left joining”: Characters of this joining type have two shapes, isolated and initial. Such characters currently don’t exist.

Constant: int UC_JOINING_TYPE_R

“Right joining”: Characters of this joining type have two shapes, isolated and final.

Constant: int UC_JOINING_TYPE_D

“Dual joining”: Characters of this joining type have four shapes, initial, medial, final, and isolated.

The following functions implement the association between a joining type and its name.

Function: const char * uc_joining_type_name (int joining_type)

Returns the name of a joining type.

Function: const char * uc_joining_type_long_name (int joining_type)

Returns the long name of a joining type.

Function: int uc_joining_type_byname (const char *joining_type_name)

Returns the joining type given by name, e.g. "D", or by long name, e.g. "Dual Joining. This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators and is case-insignificant.

The following function gives the joining type of every Unicode character.

Function: int uc_joining_type (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the joining type of a Unicode character.


8.8.2 Joining group of Arabic characters

The joining group of a character describes how the character’s shape is modified in the four contexts of dual-joining characters or in the two contexts of right-joining characters.

The joining group has the following possible values:

Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_NONE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_AIN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_ALAPH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_ALEF
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_BEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_BETH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_BURUSHASKI_YEH_BARREE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_DAL
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_DALATH_RISH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_E
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_FARSI_YEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_FE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_FEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_FINAL_SEMKATH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_GAF
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_GAMAL
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_HAH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_HE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_HEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_HEH_GOAL
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_HETH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_KAF
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_KAPH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_KHAPH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_KNOTTED_HEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_LAM
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_LAMADH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MEEM
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MIM
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_NOON
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_NUN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_NYA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_PE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_QAF
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_QAPH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_REH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_REVERSED_PE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_SAD
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_SADHE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_SEEN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_SEMKATH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_SHIN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_SWASH_KAF
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_SYRIAC_WAW
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_TAH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_TAW
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_TEH_MARBUTA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_TEH_MARBUTA_GOAL
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_TETH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_WAW
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_YEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_YEH_BARREE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_YEH_WITH_TAIL
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_YUDH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_YUDH_HE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_ZAIN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_ZHAIN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_ROHINGYA_YEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_STRAIGHT_WAW
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_ALEPH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_BETH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_GIMEL
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_DALETH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_WAW
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_ZAYIN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_HETH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_TETH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_YODH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_KAPH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_LAMEDH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_DHAMEDH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_THAMEDH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_MEM
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_NUN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_SAMEKH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_AYIN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_PE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_SADHE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_QOPH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_RESH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_TAW
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_ONE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_FIVE
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_TEN
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_TWENTY
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MANICHAEAN_HUNDRED
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_AFRICAN_FEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_AFRICAN_QAF
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_AFRICAN_NOON
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_NGA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_JA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_NYA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_TTA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_NNA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_NNNA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_BHA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_RA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_LLA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_LLLA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_MALAYALAM_SSA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_HANIFI_ROHINGYA_PA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_HANIFI_ROHINGYA_KINNA_YA
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_THIN_YEH
Constant: int UC_JOINING_GROUP_VERTICAL_TAIL

The following functions implement the association between a joining group and its name.

Function: const char * uc_joining_group_name (int joining_group)

Returns the name of a joining group.

Function: int uc_joining_group_byname (const char *joining_group_name)

Returns the joining group given by name, e.g. "Teh_Marbuta". This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators and is case-insignificant.

The following function gives the joining group of every Unicode character.

Function: int uc_joining_group (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the joining group of a Unicode character.


8.9 Properties

This section defines boolean properties of Unicode characters. This means, a character either has the given property or does not have it. In other words, the property can be viewed as a subset of the set of Unicode characters.

The GNU libunistring library provides two kinds of API for working with properties. The object oriented API uses a type uc_property_t to designate a property. In the function-based API, which is a bit more low level, a property is merely a function.


8.9.1 Properties as objects – the object oriented API

The following type designates a property on Unicode characters.

Type: uc_property_t

This data type denotes a boolean property on Unicode characters. It is an immediate type that can be copied by simple assignment, without involving memory allocation. It is not an array type.

Many Unicode properties are predefined.

The following are general properties.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_WHITE_SPACE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ALPHABETIC
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_ALPHABETIC
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_NOT_A_CHARACTER
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_DEFAULT_IGNORABLE_CODE_POINT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DEPRECATED
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LOGICAL_ORDER_EXCEPTION
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_VARIATION_SELECTOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PRIVATE_USE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_UNASSIGNED_CODE_VALUE

The following properties are related to case folding.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_UPPERCASE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_UPPERCASE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LOWERCASE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_LOWERCASE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_TITLECASE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CASED
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CASE_IGNORABLE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_LOWERCASED
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_UPPERCASED
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_TITLECASED
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_CASEFOLDED
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CHANGES_WHEN_CASEMAPPED
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_SOFT_DOTTED

The following properties are related to identifiers.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_START
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_ID_START
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_CONTINUE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_ID_CONTINUE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_XID_START
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_XID_CONTINUE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_START
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ID_COMPAT_MATH_CONTINUE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PATTERN_WHITE_SPACE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PATTERN_SYNTAX

The following properties have an influence on shaping and rendering.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_JOIN_CONTROL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_GRAPHEME_BASE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_GRAPHEME_EXTEND
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_GRAPHEME_EXTEND

The following properties relate to bidirectional reordering.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_CONTROL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_LEFT_TO_RIGHT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_HEBREW_RIGHT_TO_LEFT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_ARABIC_RIGHT_TO_LEFT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EUROPEAN_DIGIT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EUR_NUM_SEPARATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EUR_NUM_TERMINATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_ARABIC_DIGIT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_COMMON_SEPARATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_BLOCK_SEPARATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_SEGMENT_SEPARATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_WHITESPACE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_NON_SPACING_MARK
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_BOUNDARY_NEUTRAL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_PDF
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_EMBEDDING_OR_OVERRIDE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_BIDI_OTHER_NEUTRAL

The following properties deal with number representations.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_HEX_DIGIT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ASCII_HEX_DIGIT

The following properties deal with CJK.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDEOGRAPHIC
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_UNIFIED_IDEOGRAPH
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_RADICAL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDS_UNARY_OPERATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDS_BINARY_OPERATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IDS_TRINARY_OPERATOR

The following properties deal with pictographic symbols.

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_PRESENTATION
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_MODIFIER
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_MODIFIER_BASE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EMOJI_COMPONENT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EXTENDED_PICTOGRAPHIC

Other miscellaneous properties are:

Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ZERO_WIDTH
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_SPACE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_NON_BREAK
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_ISO_CONTROL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_FORMAT_CONTROL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PREPENDED_CONCATENATION_MARK
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DASH
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_HYPHEN
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PUNCTUATION
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LINE_SEPARATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_QUOTATION_MARK
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_SENTENCE_TERMINAL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_TERMINAL_PUNCTUATION
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_CURRENCY_SYMBOL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_MATH
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_OTHER_MATH
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_PAIRED_PUNCTUATION
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_LEFT_OF_PAIR
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_COMBINING
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_COMPOSITE
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DECIMAL_DIGIT
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_NUMERIC
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_DIACRITIC
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_EXTENDER
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_IGNORABLE_CONTROL
Constant: uc_property_t UC_PROPERTY_REGIONAL_INDICATOR

The following function looks up a property by its name.

Function: uc_property_t uc_property_byname (const char *property_name)

Returns the property given by name, e.g. "White space". If a property with the given name exists, the result will satisfy the uc_property_is_valid predicate. Otherwise the result will not satisfy this predicate and must not be passed to functions that expect an uc_property_t argument.

This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators, is case-insignificant, and supports the aliases listed in Unicode’s PropertyAliases.txt file.

This function references a big table of all predefined properties. Its use can significantly increase the size of your application.

Function: bool uc_property_is_valid (uc_property_t property)

Returns true when the given property is valid, or false otherwise.

The following function views a property as a set of Unicode characters.

Function: bool uc_is_property (ucs4_t uc, uc_property_t property)

Tests whether the Unicode character uc has the given property.


8.9.2 Properties as functions – the functional API

The following are general properties.

Function: bool uc_is_property_white_space (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_alphabetic (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_alphabetic (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_not_a_character (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_default_ignorable_code_point (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_default_ignorable_code_point (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_deprecated (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_logical_order_exception (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_variation_selector (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_private_use (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_unassigned_code_value (ucs4_t uc)

The following properties are related to case folding.

Function: bool uc_is_property_uppercase (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_uppercase (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_lowercase (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_lowercase (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_titlecase (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_cased (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_case_ignorable (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_changes_when_lowercased (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_changes_when_uppercased (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_changes_when_titlecased (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_changes_when_casefolded (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_changes_when_casemapped (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_soft_dotted (ucs4_t uc)

The following properties are related to identifiers.

Function: bool uc_is_property_id_start (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_id_start (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_id_continue (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_id_continue (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_xid_start (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_xid_continue (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_id_compat_math_start (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_id_compat_math_continue (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_pattern_white_space (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_pattern_syntax (ucs4_t uc)

The following properties have an influence on shaping and rendering.

Function: bool uc_is_property_join_control (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_grapheme_base (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_grapheme_extend (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_grapheme_extend (ucs4_t uc)

The following properties relate to bidirectional reordering.

Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_control (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_left_to_right (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_hebrew_right_to_left (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_arabic_right_to_left (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_european_digit (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_eur_num_separator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_eur_num_terminator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_arabic_digit (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_common_separator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_block_separator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_segment_separator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_whitespace (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_non_spacing_mark (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_boundary_neutral (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_pdf (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_embedding_or_override (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_bidi_other_neutral (ucs4_t uc)

The following properties deal with number representations.

Function: bool uc_is_property_hex_digit (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_ascii_hex_digit (ucs4_t uc)

The following properties deal with CJK.

Function: bool uc_is_property_ideographic (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_unified_ideograph (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_radical (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_ids_unary_operator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_ids_binary_operator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_ids_trinary_operator (ucs4_t uc)

The following properties deal with pictographic symbols.

Function: bool uc_is_property_emoji (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_emoji_presentation (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_emoji_modifier (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_emoji_modifier_base (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_emoji_component (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_extended_pictographic (ucs4_t uc)

Other miscellaneous properties are:

Function: bool uc_is_property_zero_width (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_space (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_non_break (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_iso_control (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_format_control (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_prepended_concatenation_mark (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_dash (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_hyphen (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_punctuation (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_line_separator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_paragraph_separator (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_quotation_mark (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_sentence_terminal (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_terminal_punctuation (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_currency_symbol (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_math (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_other_math (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_paired_punctuation (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_left_of_pair (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_combining (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_composite (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_decimal_digit (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_numeric (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_diacritic (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_extender (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_ignorable_control (ucs4_t uc)
Function: bool uc_is_property_regional_indicator (ucs4_t uc)

8.10 Other attributes

This section defines non-boolean attributes of Unicode characters.


8.10.1 Indic conjunct break

The Indic_Conjunct_Break attribute is used when determining the grapheme cluster boundary in Indic scripts.

The Indic_Conjunct_Break attribute has the following possible values:

Constant: int UC_INDIC_CONJUNCT_BREAK_NONE
Constant: int UC_INDIC_CONJUNCT_BREAK_CONSONANT
Constant: int UC_INDIC_CONJUNCT_BREAK_LINKER
Constant: int UC_INDIC_CONJUNCT_BREAK_EXTEND

The following functions implement the association between an Indic_Conjunct_Break value and its name.

Function: const char * uc_indic_conjunct_break_name (int indic_conjunct_break)

Returns the name of an Indic_Conjunct_Break value.

Function: int uc_indic_conjunct_break_byname (const char *indic_conjunct_break_name)

Returns the Indic_Conjunct_Break value given by name, e.g. "Consonant". This lookup ignores spaces, underscores, or hyphens as word separators and is case-insignificant.

The following function gives the Indic_Conjunct_Break attribute of every Unicode character.

Function: int uc_indic_conjunct_break (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the Indic_Conjunct_Break attribute of a Unicode character.


8.11 Scripts

The Unicode characters are subdivided into scripts.

The following type is used to represent a script:

Type: uc_script_t

This data type is a structure type that refers to statically allocated read-only data. It contains the following fields:

const char *name;

The name field contains the name of the script.

The following functions look up a script.

Function: const uc_script_t * uc_script (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the script of a Unicode character. Returns NULL if uc does not belong to any script.

Function: const uc_script_t * uc_script_byname (const char *script_name)

Returns the script given by its name, e.g. "HAN". Returns NULL if a script with the given name does not exist.

The following function views a script as a set of Unicode characters.

Function: bool uc_is_script (ucs4_t uc, const uc_script_t *script)

Tests whether a Unicode character belongs to a given script.

The following gives a global picture of all scripts.

Function: void uc_all_scripts (const uc_script_t **scripts, size_t *count)

Get the list of all scripts. Stores a pointer to an array of all scripts in *scripts and the length of this array in *count.


8.12 Blocks

The Unicode characters are subdivided into blocks. A block is an interval of Unicode code points.

The following type is used to represent a block.

Type: uc_block_t

This data type is a structure type that refers to statically allocated data. It contains the following fields:

ucs4_t start;
ucs4_t end;
const char *name;

The start field is the first Unicode code point in the block.

The end field is the last Unicode code point in the block.

The name field is the name of the block.

The following function looks up a block.

Function: const uc_block_t * uc_block (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the block a character belongs to.

The following function views a block as a set of Unicode characters.

Function: bool uc_is_block (ucs4_t uc, const uc_block_t *block)

Tests whether a Unicode character belongs to a given block.

The following gives a global picture of all block.

Function: void uc_all_blocks (const uc_block_t **blocks, size_t *count)

Get the list of all blocks. Stores a pointer to an array of all blocks in *blocks and the length of this array in *count.


8.13 ISO C and Java syntax

The following properties are taken from language standards. The supported language standards are ISO C 99 and Java.

Function: bool uc_is_c_whitespace (ucs4_t uc)

Tests whether a Unicode character is considered whitespace in ISO C 99.

Function: bool uc_is_java_whitespace (ucs4_t uc)

Tests whether a Unicode character is considered whitespace in Java.

The following enumerated values are the possible return values of the functions uc_c_ident_category and uc_java_ident_category.

Constant: int UC_IDENTIFIER_START

This return value means that the given character is valid as first or subsequent character in an identifier.

Constant: int UC_IDENTIFIER_VALID

This return value means that the given character is valid as subsequent character only.

Constant: int UC_IDENTIFIER_INVALID

This return value means that the given character is not valid in an identifier.

Constant: int UC_IDENTIFIER_IGNORABLE

This return value (only for Java) means that the given character is ignorable.

The following function determine whether a given character can be a constituent of an identifier in the given programming language.

Function: int uc_c_ident_category (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the categorization of a Unicode character with respect to the ISO C 99 identifier syntax.

Function: int uc_java_ident_category (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the categorization of a Unicode character with respect to the Java identifier syntax.


8.14 Classifications like in ISO C

The following character classifications mimic those declared in the ISO C header files <ctype.h> and <wctype.h>. These functions are deprecated, because this set of functions was designed with ASCII in mind and cannot reflect the more diverse reality of the Unicode character set. But they can be a quick-and-dirty porting aid when migrating from wchar_t APIs to Unicode strings.

Function: bool uc_is_alnum (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character for which uc_is_alpha or uc_is_digit is true.

Function: bool uc_is_alpha (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character for which uc_is_upper or uc_is_lower is true, or any character that is one of a locale-specific set of characters for which none of uc_is_cntrl, uc_is_digit, uc_is_punct, or uc_is_space is true.

Function: bool uc_is_cntrl (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any control character.

Function: bool uc_is_digit (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character that corresponds to a decimal-digit character.

Function: bool uc_is_graph (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character for which uc_is_print is true and uc_is_space is false.

Function: bool uc_is_lower (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character that corresponds to a lowercase letter or is one of a locale-specific set of characters for which none of uc_is_cntrl, uc_is_digit, uc_is_punct, or uc_is_space is true.

Function: bool uc_is_print (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any printing character.

Function: bool uc_is_punct (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any printing character that is one of a locale-specific set of characters for which neither uc_is_space nor uc_is_alnum is true.

Function: bool uc_is_space (ucs4_t uc)

Test for any character that corresponds to a locale-specific set of characters for which none of uc_is_alnum, uc_is_graph, or uc_is_punct is true.

Function: bool uc_is_upper (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character that corresponds to an uppercase letter or is one of a locale-specific set of characters for which none of uc_is_cntrl, uc_is_digit, uc_is_punct, or uc_is_space is true.

Function: bool uc_is_xdigit (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character that corresponds to a hexadecimal-digit character.

Function: bool uc_is_blank (ucs4_t uc)

Tests for any character that corresponds to a standard blank character or a locale-specific set of characters for which uc_is_alnum is false.


9 Display width <uniwidth.h>

This include file declares functions that return the display width, measured in columns, of characters or strings, when output to a device that uses non-proportional fonts.

Note that for some rarely used characters the actual fonts or terminal emulators can use a different width. There is no mechanism for communicating the display width of characters across a Unix pseudo-terminal (tty). Also, there are scripts with complex rendering, like the Indic scripts. For these scripts, there is no such concept as non-proportional fonts. Therefore the results of these functions usually work fine on most scripts and on most characters but can fail to represent the actual display width.

These functions are locale dependent. The encoding argument identifies the encoding (e.g. "ISO-8859-2" for Polish).

Function: int uc_width (ucs4_t uc, const char *encoding)

Determines and returns the number of column positions required for uc. Returns -1 if uc is a control character that has an influence on the column position when output.

Function: int u8_width (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *encoding)
Function: int u16_width (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *encoding)
Function: int u32_width (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *encoding)

Determines and returns the number of column positions required for first n units (or fewer if s ends before this) in s. This function ignores control characters in the string.

Function: int u8_strwidth (const uint8_t *s, const char *encoding)
Function: int u16_strwidth (const uint16_t *s, const char *encoding)
Function: int u32_strwidth (const uint32_t *s, const char *encoding)

Determines and returns the number of column positions required for s. This function ignores control characters in the string.


10 Grapheme cluster breaks in strings <unigbrk.h>

This include file declares functions for determining where in a string “grapheme clusters” start and end. A “grapheme cluster” is an approximation to a user-perceived character, which sometimes corresponds to multiple Unicode characters. Editing operations such as mouse selection, cursor movement, and backspacing often operate on grapheme clusters as units, not on individual characters.

Some grapheme clusters are built from a base character and a combining character. The letter ‘é’, for example, is most commonly represented in Unicode as a single character U+00E8 LATIN SMALL LETTER E WITH ACUTE. It is, however, equally valid to use the pair of characters U+0065 LATIN SMALL LETTER E followed by U+0301 COMBINING ACUTE ACCENT. Since the user would perceive this pair of characters as a single character, they would be grouped into a single grapheme cluster.

But there are also grapheme clusters that consist of several base characters. For example, a Devanagari letter and a Devanagari vowel sign that follows it may form a grapheme cluster. Similarly, some pairs of Thai characters and Hangul syllables (formed by two or three Hangul characters) are grapheme clusters.


10.1 Grapheme cluster breaks in a string

The following functions find a single boundary between grapheme clusters in a string.

Function: void u8_grapheme_next (const uint8_t *s, const uint8_t *end)
Function: void u16_grapheme_next (const uint16_t *s, const uint16_t *end)
Function: void u32_grapheme_next (const uint32_t *s, const uint32_t *end)

Returns the start of the next grapheme cluster following s, or end if no grapheme cluster break is encountered before it. Returns NULL if and only if s == end.

Note that these functions do not handle the case when a character outside of the range between s and end is needed to determine the boundary. This is the case in particular with syllables in Indic scripts or emojis. Use _grapheme_breaks functions for such cases.

Function: void u8_grapheme_prev (const uint8_t *s, const uint8_t *start)
Function: void u16_grapheme_prev (const uint16_t *s, const uint16_t *start)
Function: void u32_grapheme_prev (const uint32_t *s, const uint32_t *start)

Returns the start of the grapheme cluster preceding s, or start if no grapheme cluster break is encountered before it. Returns NULL if and only if s == start.

Note that these functions do not handle the case when a character outside of the range between start and s is needed to determine the boundary. This is the case in particular with syllables in Indic scripts or emojis. Use _grapheme_breaks functions for such cases.

Note also that these functions work only on well-formed Unicode strings.

The following functions determine all of the grapheme cluster boundaries in a string.

Function: void u8_grapheme_breaks (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, char *p)
Function: void u16_grapheme_breaks (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, char *p)
Function: void u32_grapheme_breaks (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, char *p)
Function: void ulc_grapheme_breaks (const char *s, size_t n, char *p)
Function: void uc_grapheme_breaks (const ucs_t *s, size_t n, char *p)

Determines the grapheme cluster break points in s, an array of n units, and stores the result at p[0..nx-1].

p[i] = 1

means that there is a grapheme cluster boundary between s[i-1] and s[i].

p[i] = 0

means that s[i-1] and s[i] are part of the same grapheme cluster.

p[0] is always set to 1, because there is always a grapheme cluster break at start of text.

In addition to the above variants for UTF-8, UTF-16, and UTF-32 strings, <unigbrk.h> provides another variant: uc_grapheme_breaks.

This is similar to u32_grapheme_breaks, but it accepts any characters which may not be represented in UTF-32, such as control characters.


10.2 Grapheme cluster break property

This is a more low-level API. The grapheme cluster break property is a property defined in Unicode Standard Annex #29, section “Grapheme Cluster Boundaries”, see https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Grapheme_Cluster_Boundaries. It is used for determining the grapheme cluster breaks in a string.

The following are the possible values of the grapheme cluster break property. More values may be added in the future.

Constant: int GBP_OTHER
Constant: int GBP_CR
Constant: int GBP_LF
Constant: int GBP_CONTROL
Constant: int GBP_EXTEND
Constant: int GBP_PREPEND
Constant: int GBP_SPACINGMARK
Constant: int GBP_L
Constant: int GBP_V
Constant: int GBP_T
Constant: int GBP_LV
Constant: int GBP_LVT
Constant: int GBP_RI
Constant: int GBP_ZWJ
Constant: int GBP_EB
Constant: int GBP_EM
Constant: int GBP_GAZ
Constant: int GBP_EBG

The following function looks up the grapheme cluster break property of a character.

Function: int uc_graphemeclusterbreak_property (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the Grapheme_Cluster_Break property of a Unicode character.

The following function determines whether there is a grapheme cluster break between two Unicode characters. It is the primitive upon which the higher-level functions in the previous section are directly based.

Function: bool uc_is_grapheme_break (ucs4_t a, ucs4_t b)

Returns true if there is an grapheme cluster boundary between Unicode characters a and b.

There is always a grapheme cluster break at the start or end of text. You can specify zero for a or b to indicate start of text or end of text, respectively.

This implements the extended (not legacy) grapheme cluster rules described in the Unicode standard, because the standard says that they are preferred.

Note that this function does not handle the case when three or more consecutive characters are needed to determine the boundary. This is the case in particular with syllables in Indic scripts or emojis. Use uc_grapheme_breaks for such cases.


11 Word breaks in strings <uniwbrk.h>

This include file declares functions for determining where in a string “words” start and end. Here “words” are not necessarily the same as entities that can be looked up in dictionaries, but rather groups of consecutive characters that should not be split by text processing operations.


11.1 Word breaks in a string

The following functions determine the word breaks in a string.

Function: void u8_wordbreaks (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, char *p)
Function: void u16_wordbreaks (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, char *p)
Function: void u32_wordbreaks (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, char *p)
Function: void ulc_wordbreaks (const char *s, size_t n, char *p)

Determines the word break points in s, an array of n units, and stores the result at p[0..n-1].

p[i] = 1

means that there is a word boundary between s[i-1] and s[i].

p[i] = 0

means that s[i-1] and s[i] must not be separated.

p[0] is always set to 0. If an application wants to consider a word break to be present at the beginning of the string (before s[0]) or at the end of the string (after s[0..n-1]), it has to treat these cases explicitly.


11.2 Word break property

This is a more low-level API. The word break property is a property defined in Unicode Standard Annex #29, section “Word Boundaries”, see https://www.unicode.org/reports/tr29/#Word_Boundaries. It is used for determining the word breaks in a string.

The following are the possible values of the word break property. More values may be added in the future.

Constant: int WBP_OTHER
Constant: int WBP_CR
Constant: int WBP_LF
Constant: int WBP_NEWLINE
Constant: int WBP_EXTEND
Constant: int WBP_FORMAT
Constant: int WBP_KATAKANA
Constant: int WBP_ALETTER
Constant: int WBP_MIDNUMLET
Constant: int WBP_MIDLETTER
Constant: int WBP_MIDNUM
Constant: int WBP_NUMERIC
Constant: int WBP_EXTENDNUMLET
Constant: int WBP_RI
Constant: int WBP_DQ
Constant: int WBP_SQ
Constant: int WBP_HL
Constant: int WBP_ZWJ
Constant: int WBP_EB
Constant: int WBP_EM
Constant: int WBP_GAZ
Constant: int WBP_EBG

The following function looks up the word break property of a character.

Function: int uc_wordbreak_property (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the Word_Break property of a Unicode character.


12 Line breaking <unilbrk.h>

This include file declares functions for determining where in a string line breaks could or should be introduced, in order to make the displayed string fit into a column of given width.

These functions are locale dependent. The encoding argument identifies the encoding (e.g. "ISO-8859-2" for Polish).

The following enumerated values indicate whether, at a given position, a line break is possible or not. Given an string s as an array s[0..n-1] and a position i, the values have the following meanings:

Constant: int UC_BREAK_MANDATORY

This value indicates that s[i] is a line break character.

Constant: int UC_BREAK_CR_BEFORE_LF

This value is a variant of UC_BREAK_MANDATORY. It indicates that s[i] is a CR character and that s[i+1] is a LF character.

Constant: int UC_BREAK_POSSIBLE

This value indicates that a line break may be inserted between s[i-1] and s[i].

Constant: int UC_BREAK_HYPHENATION

This value indicates that a hyphen and a line break may be inserted between s[i-1] and s[i]. But beware of language dependent hyphenation rules.

Constant: int UC_BREAK_PROHIBITED

This value indicates that s[i-1] and s[i] must not be separated.

Constant: int UC_BREAK_UNDEFINED

This value is not used as a return value; rather, in the overriding argument of the u*_width_linebreaks functions, it indicates the absence of an override.

The following functions determine the positions at which line breaks are possible.

Function: void u8_possible_linebreaks (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *encoding, char *p)
Function: void u16_possible_linebreaks (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *encoding, char *p)
Function: void u32_possible_linebreaks (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *encoding, char *p)
Function: void ulc_possible_linebreaks (const char *s, size_t n, const char *encoding, char *p)

Determines the line break points in s, and stores the result at p[0..n-1]. Every p[i] is assigned one of the values UC_BREAK_MANDATORY, UC_BREAK_CR_BEFORE_LF, UC_BREAK_POSSIBLE, UC_BREAK_HYPHENATION, UC_BREAK_PROHIBITED.

The following functions determine where line breaks should be inserted so that each line fits in a given width, when output to a device that uses non-proportional fonts.

Function: int u8_width_linebreaks (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, int width, int start_column, int at_end_columns, const char *override, const char *encoding, char *p)
Function: int u16_width_linebreaks (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, int width, int start_column, int at_end_columns, const char *override, const char *encoding, char *p)
Function: int u32_width_linebreaks (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, int width, int start_column, int at_end_columns, const char *override, const char *encoding, char *p)
Function: int ulc_width_linebreaks (const char *s, size_t n, int width, int start_column, int at_end_columns, const char *override, const char *encoding, char *p)

Chooses the best line breaks, assuming that every character occupies a width given by the uc_width function (see Display width <uniwidth.h>).

The string is s[0..n-1].

The maximum number of columns per line is given as width. The starting column of the string is given as start_column. If the algorithm shall keep room after the last piece, this amount of room can be given as at_end_columns.

override is an optional override; if override[i] != UC_BREAK_UNDEFINED, override[i] takes precedence over p[i] as returned by the u*_possible_linebreaks function.

The given encoding is used for disambiguating widths in uc_width.

Returns the column after the end of the string, and stores the result at p[0..n-1]. Every p[i] is assigned one of the values UC_BREAK_MANDATORY, UC_BREAK_CR_BEFORE_LF, UC_BREAK_POSSIBLE, UC_BREAK_HYPHENATION, UC_BREAK_PROHIBITED. Here the value UC_BREAK_POSSIBLE indicates that a line break should be inserted.


13 Normalization forms (composition and decomposition) <uninorm.h>

This include file defines functions for transforming Unicode strings to one of the four normal forms, known as NFC, NFD, NKFC, NFKD. These transformations involve decomposition and — for NFC and NFKC — composition of Unicode characters.


13.1 Decomposition of Unicode characters

The following enumerated values are the possible types of decomposition of a Unicode character.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_CANONICAL

Denotes canonical decomposition.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_FONT

UCD marker: <font>. Denotes a font variant (e.g. a blackletter form).

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_NOBREAK

UCD marker: <noBreak>. Denotes a no-break version of a space or hyphen.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_INITIAL

UCD marker: <initial>. Denotes an initial presentation form (Arabic).

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_MEDIAL

UCD marker: <medial>. Denotes a medial presentation form (Arabic).

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_FINAL

UCD marker: <final>. Denotes a final presentation form (Arabic).

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_ISOLATED

UCD marker: <isolated>. Denotes an isolated presentation form (Arabic).

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_CIRCLE

UCD marker: <circle>. Denotes an encircled form.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_SUPER

UCD marker: <super>. Denotes a superscript form.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_SUB

UCD marker: <sub>. Denotes a subscript form.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_VERTICAL

UCD marker: <vertical>. Denotes a vertical layout presentation form.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_WIDE

UCD marker: <wide>. Denotes a wide (or zenkaku) compatibility character.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_NARROW

UCD marker: <narrow>. Denotes a narrow (or hankaku) compatibility character.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_SMALL

UCD marker: <small>. Denotes a small variant form (CNS compatibility).

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_SQUARE

UCD marker: <square>. Denotes a CJK squared font variant.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_FRACTION

UCD marker: <fraction>. Denotes a vulgar fraction form.

Constant: int UC_DECOMP_COMPAT

UCD marker: <compat>. Denotes an otherwise unspecified compatibility character.

The following constant denotes the maximum size of decomposition of a single Unicode character.

Macro: unsigned int UC_DECOMPOSITION_MAX_LENGTH

This macro expands to a constant that is the required size of buffer passed to the uc_decomposition and uc_canonical_decomposition functions.

The following functions decompose a Unicode character.

Function: int uc_decomposition (ucs4_t uc, int *decomp_tag, ucs4_t *decomposition)

Returns the character decomposition mapping of the Unicode character uc. decomposition must point to an array of at least UC_DECOMPOSITION_MAX_LENGTH ucs_t elements.

When a decomposition exists, decomposition[0..n-1] and *decomp_tag are filled and n is returned. Otherwise -1 is returned.

Function: int uc_canonical_decomposition (ucs4_t uc, ucs4_t *decomposition)

Returns the canonical character decomposition mapping of the Unicode character uc. decomposition must point to an array of at least UC_DECOMPOSITION_MAX_LENGTH ucs_t elements.

When a decomposition exists, decomposition[0..n-1] is filled and n is returned. Otherwise -1 is returned.

Note: This function returns the (simple) “canonical decomposition” of uc. If you want the “full canonical decomposition” of uc, that is, the recursive application of “canonical decomposition”, use the function u*_normalize with argument UNINORM_NFD instead.


13.2 Composition of Unicode characters

The following function composes a Unicode character from two Unicode characters.

Function: ucs4_t uc_composition (ucs4_t uc1, ucs4_t uc2)

Attempts to combine the Unicode characters uc1, uc2. uc1 is known to have canonical combining class 0.

Returns the combination of uc1 and uc2, if it exists. Returns 0 otherwise.

Not all decompositions can be recombined using this function. See the Unicode file CompositionExclusions.txt for details.


13.3 Normalization of strings

The Unicode standard defines four normalization forms for Unicode strings. The following type is used to denote a normalization form.

Type: uninorm_t

An object of type uninorm_t denotes a Unicode normalization form. This is a scalar type; its values can be compared with ==.

The following constants denote the four normalization forms.

Macro: uninorm_t UNINORM_NFD

Denotes Normalization form D: canonical decomposition.

Macro: uninorm_t UNINORM_NFC

Normalization form C: canonical decomposition, then canonical composition.

Macro: uninorm_t UNINORM_NFKD

Normalization form KD: compatibility decomposition.

Macro: uninorm_t UNINORM_NFKC

Normalization form KC: compatibility decomposition, then canonical composition.

The following functions operate on uninorm_t objects.

Function: bool uninorm_is_compat_decomposing (uninorm_t nf)

Tests whether the normalization form nf does compatibility decomposition.

Function: bool uninorm_is_composing (uninorm_t nf)

Tests whether the normalization form nf includes canonical composition.

Function: uninorm_t uninorm_decomposing_form (uninorm_t nf)

Returns the decomposing variant of the normalization form nf. This maps NFC,NFD → NFD and NFKC,NFKD → NFKD.

The following functions apply a Unicode normalization form to a Unicode string.

Function: uint8_t * u8_normalize (uninorm_t nf, const uint8_t *s, size_t n, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_normalize (uninorm_t nf, const uint16_t *s, size_t n, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_normalize (uninorm_t nf, const uint32_t *s, size_t n, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the specified normalization form of a string.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.


13.4 Normalizing comparisons

The following functions compare Unicode string, ignoring differences in normalization.

Function: int u8_normcmp (const uint8_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint8_t *s2, size_t n2, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u16_normcmp (const uint16_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint16_t *s2, size_t n2, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u32_normcmp (const uint32_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint32_t *s2, size_t n2, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)

Compares s1 and s2, ignoring differences in normalization.

nf must be either UNINORM_NFD or UNINORM_NFKD.

If successful, sets *resultp to -1 if s1 < s2, 0 if s1 = s2, 1 if s1 > s2, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.

Function: char * u8_normxfrm (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, uninorm_t nf, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: char * u16_normxfrm (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, uninorm_t nf, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: char * u32_normxfrm (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, uninorm_t nf, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts the string s of length n to a NUL-terminated byte sequence, in such a way that comparing u8_normxfrm (s1) and u8_normxfrm (s2) with the u8_cmp2 function is equivalent to comparing s1 and s2 with the u8_normcoll function.

nf must be either UNINORM_NFC or UNINORM_NFKC.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: int u8_normcoll (const uint8_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint8_t *s2, size_t n2, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u16_normcoll (const uint16_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint16_t *s2, size_t n2, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u32_normcoll (const uint32_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint32_t *s2, size_t n2, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)

Compares s1 and s2, ignoring differences in normalization, using the collation rules of the current locale.

nf must be either UNINORM_NFC or UNINORM_NFKC.

If successful, sets *resultp to -1 if s1 < s2, 0 if s1 = s2, 1 if s1 > s2, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.


13.5 Normalization of streams of Unicode characters

A “stream of Unicode characters” is essentially a function that accepts an ucs4_t argument repeatedly, optionally combined with a function that “flushes” the stream.

Type: struct uninorm_filter

This is the data type of a stream of Unicode characters that normalizes its input according to a given normalization form and passes the normalized character sequence to the encapsulated stream of Unicode characters.

Function: struct uninorm_filter * uninorm_filter_create (uninorm_t nf, int (*stream_func) (void *stream_data, ucs4_t uc), void *stream_data)

Creates and returns a normalization filter for Unicode characters.

The pair (stream_func, stream_data) is the encapsulated stream. stream_func (stream_data, uc) receives the Unicode character uc and returns 0 if successful, or -1 with errno set upon failure.

Returns the new filter, or NULL with errno set upon failure.

Function: int uninorm_filter_write (struct uninorm_filter *filter, ucs4_t uc)

Stuffs a Unicode character into a normalizing filter. Returns 0 if successful, or -1 with errno set upon failure.

Function: int uninorm_filter_flush (struct uninorm_filter *filter)

Brings data buffered in the filter to its destination, the encapsulated stream.

Returns 0 if successful, or -1 with errno set upon failure.

Note! If after calling this function, additional characters are written into the filter, the resulting character sequence in the encapsulated stream will not necessarily be normalized.

Function: int uninorm_filter_free (struct uninorm_filter *filter)

Brings data buffered in the filter to its destination, the encapsulated stream, then closes and frees the filter.

Returns 0 if successful, or -1 with errno set upon failure.


14 Case mappings <unicase.h>

This include file defines functions for case mapping for Unicode strings and case insensitive comparison of Unicode strings and C strings.

These string functions fix the problems that were mentioned in char *’ strings, namely, they handle the Croatian LETTER DZ WITH CARON, the German LATIN SMALL LETTER SHARP S, the Greek sigma and the Lithuanian i correctly.


14.1 Case mappings of characters

The following functions implement case mappings on Unicode characters — for those cases only where the result of the mapping is a again a single Unicode character.

These mappings are locale and context independent.

WARNING! These functions are not sufficient for languages such as German, Greek and Lithuanian. Better use the functions below that treat an entire string at once and are language aware.

Function: ucs4_t uc_toupper (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the uppercase mapping of the Unicode character uc.

Function: ucs4_t uc_tolower (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the lowercase mapping of the Unicode character uc.

Function: ucs4_t uc_totitle (ucs4_t uc)

Returns the titlecase mapping of the Unicode character uc.

The titlecase mapping of a character is to be used when the character should look like upper case and the following characters are lower cased.

For most characters, this is the same as the uppercase mapping. There are only few characters where the title case variant and the upper case variant are different. These characters occur in the Latin writing of the Croatian, Bosnian, and Serbian languages.

Lower caseTitle caseUpper case
LATIN SMALL LETTER LJLATIN CAPITAL LETTER L WITH SMALL LETTER JLATIN CAPITAL LETTER LJ
LATIN SMALL LETTER NJLATIN CAPITAL LETTER N WITH SMALL LETTER JLATIN CAPITAL LETTER NJ
LATIN SMALL LETTER DZLATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SMALL LETTER ZLATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ
LATIN SMALL LETTER DZ WITH CARONLATIN CAPITAL LETTER D WITH SMALL LETTER Z WITH CARONLATIN CAPITAL LETTER DZ WITH CARON

14.2 Case mappings of strings

Case mapping should always be performed on entire strings, not on individual characters. The functions in this section do so.

These functions allow to apply a normalization after the case mapping. The reason is that if you want to treat ‘ä’ and ‘Ä’ the same, you most often also want to treat the composed and decomposed forms of such a character, U+00C4 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH DIAERESIS and U+0041 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A U+0308 COMBINING DIAERESIS the same. The nf argument designates the normalization.

These functions are locale dependent. The iso639_language argument identifies the language (e.g. "tr" for Turkish). NULL means to use locale independent case mappings.

Function: const char * uc_locale_language ()

Returns the ISO 639 language code of the current locale. Returns "" if it is unknown, or in the "C" locale.

Function: uint8_t * u8_toupper (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_toupper (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_toupper (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the uppercase mapping of a string.

The nf argument identifies the normalization form to apply after the case-mapping. It can also be NULL, for no normalization.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint8_t * u8_tolower (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_tolower (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_tolower (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the lowercase mapping of a string.

The nf argument identifies the normalization form to apply after the case-mapping. It can also be NULL, for no normalization.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint8_t * u8_totitle (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_totitle (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_totitle (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the titlecase mapping of a string.

Mapping to title case means that, in each word, the first cased character is being mapped to title case and the remaining characters of the word are being mapped to lower case.

The nf argument identifies the normalization form to apply after the case-mapping. It can also be NULL, for no normalization.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.


14.3 Case mappings of substrings

Case mapping of a substring cannot simply be performed by extracting the substring and then applying the case mapping function to it. This does not work because case mapping requires some information about the surrounding characters. The following functions allow to apply case mappings to substrings of a given string, while taking into account the characters that precede it (the “prefix”) and the characters that follow it (the “suffix”).

Type: casing_prefix_context_t

This data type denotes the case-mapping context that is given by a prefix string. It is an immediate type that can be copied by simple assignment, without involving memory allocation. It is not an array type.

Constant: casing_prefix_context_t unicase_empty_prefix_context

This constant is the case-mapping context that corresponds to an empty prefix string.

The following functions return casing_prefix_context_t objects:

Function: casing_prefix_context_t u8_casing_prefix_context (const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: casing_prefix_context_t u16_casing_prefix_context (const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: casing_prefix_context_t u32_casing_prefix_context (const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

Returns the case-mapping context of a given prefix string.

Function: casing_prefix_context_t u8_casing_prefixes_context (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t a_context)
Function: casing_prefix_context_t u16_casing_prefixes_context (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t a_context)
Function: casing_prefix_context_t u32_casing_prefixes_context (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t a_context)

Returns the case-mapping context of the prefix concat(a, s), given the case-mapping context of the prefix a.

Type: casing_suffix_context_t

This data type denotes the case-mapping context that is given by a suffix string. It is an immediate type that can be copied by simple assignment, without involving memory allocation. It is not an array type.

Constant: casing_suffix_context_t unicase_empty_suffix_context

This constant is the case-mapping context that corresponds to an empty suffix string.

The following functions return casing_suffix_context_t objects:

Function: casing_suffix_context_t u8_casing_suffix_context (const uint8_t *s, size_t n)
Function: casing_suffix_context_t u16_casing_suffix_context (const uint16_t *s, size_t n)
Function: casing_suffix_context_t u32_casing_suffix_context (const uint32_t *s, size_t n)

Returns the case-mapping context of a given suffix string.

Function: casing_suffix_context_t u8_casing_suffixes_context (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, casing_suffix_context_t a_context)
Function: casing_suffix_context_t u16_casing_suffixes_context (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, casing_suffix_context_t a_context)
Function: casing_suffix_context_t u32_casing_suffixes_context (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, casing_suffix_context_t a_context)

Returns the case-mapping context of the suffix concat(s, a), given the case-mapping context of the suffix a.

The following functions perform a case mapping, considering the prefix context and the suffix context.

Function: uint8_t * u8_ct_toupper (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_ct_toupper (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_ct_toupper (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the uppercase mapping of a string that is surrounded by a prefix and a suffix.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint8_t * u8_ct_tolower (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_ct_tolower (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_ct_tolower (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the lowercase mapping of a string that is surrounded by a prefix and a suffix.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint8_t * u8_ct_totitle (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_ct_totitle (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_ct_totitle (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the titlecase mapping of a string that is surrounded by a prefix and a suffix.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

For example, to uppercase the UTF-8 substring between s + start_index and s + end_index of a string that extends from s to s + u8_strlen (s), you can use the statements

size_t result_length;
uint8_t result =
  u8_ct_toupper (s + start_index, end_index - start_index,
                 u8_casing_prefix_context (s, start_index),
                 u8_casing_suffix_context (s + end_index,
                                           u8_strlen (s) - end_index),
                 iso639_language, NULL, NULL, &result_length);

14.4 Case insensitive comparison

The following functions implement comparison that ignores differences in case and normalization.

Function: uint8_t * u8_casefold (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_casefold (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_casefold (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the case folded string.

Comparing u8_casefold (s1) and u8_casefold (s2) with the u8_cmp2 function is equivalent to comparing s1 and s2 with u8_casecmp.

The nf argument identifies the normalization form to apply after the case-mapping. It can also be NULL, for no normalization.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: uint8_t * u8_ct_casefold (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint8_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint16_t * u16_ct_casefold (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint16_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: uint32_t * u32_ct_casefold (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, casing_prefix_context_t prefix_context, casing_suffix_context_t suffix_context, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, uint32_t *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Returns the case folded string. The case folding takes into account the case mapping contexts of the prefix and suffix strings.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

The following functions ignore locale-dependent collation rules, but do use locale-dependent case mappings (if iso639_language is not NULL).

Function: int u8_casecmp (const uint8_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint8_t *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u16_casecmp (const uint16_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint16_t *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u32_casecmp (const uint32_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint32_t *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int ulc_casecmp (const char *s1, size_t n1, const char *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)

Compares s1 and s2, ignoring differences in case and normalization.

The nf argument identifies the normalization form to apply after the case-mapping. It can also be NULL, for no normalization.

If successful, sets *resultp to -1 if s1 < s2, 0 if s1 = s2, 1 if s1 > s2, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.

The following functions additionally take into account the sorting rules of the current locale.

Function: char * u8_casexfrm (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: char * u16_casexfrm (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: char * u32_casexfrm (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)
Function: char * ulc_casexfrm (const char *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, char *resultbuf, size_t *lengthp)

Converts the string s of length n to a NUL-terminated byte sequence, in such a way that comparing u8_casexfrm (s1) and u8_casexfrm (s2) with the gnulib function memcmp2 is equivalent to comparing s1 and s2 with u8_casecoll.

nf must be either UNINORM_NFC, UNINORM_NFKC, or NULL for no normalization.

The resultbuf and lengthp arguments are as described in chapter Conventions.

Function: int u8_casecoll (const uint8_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint8_t *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u16_casecoll (const uint16_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint16_t *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int u32_casecoll (const uint32_t *s1, size_t n1, const uint32_t *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)
Function: int ulc_casecoll (const char *s1, size_t n1, const char *s2, size_t n2, const char *iso639_language, uninorm_t nf, int *resultp)

Compares s1 and s2, ignoring differences in case and normalization, using the collation rules of the current locale.

The nf argument identifies the normalization form to apply after the case-mapping. It must be either UNINORM_NFC or UNINORM_NFKC. It can also be NULL, for no normalization.

If successful, sets *resultp to -1 if s1 < s2, 0 if s1 = s2, 1 if s1 > s2, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.


14.5 Case detection

The following functions determine whether a Unicode string is entirely in upper case. or entirely in lower case, or entirely in title case, or already case-folded.

Function: int u8_is_uppercase (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u16_is_uppercase (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u32_is_uppercase (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)

Sets *resultp to true if mapping NFD(s) to upper case is a no-op, or to false otherwise, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.

Function: int u8_is_lowercase (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u16_is_lowercase (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u32_is_lowercase (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)

Sets *resultp to true if mapping NFD(s) to lower case is a no-op, or to false otherwise, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.

Function: int u8_is_titlecase (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u16_is_titlecase (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u32_is_titlecase (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)

Sets *resultp to true if mapping NFD(s) to title case is a no-op, or to false otherwise, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.

Function: int u8_is_casefolded (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u16_is_casefolded (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u32_is_casefolded (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)

Sets *resultp to true if applying case folding to NFD(S) is a no-op, or to false otherwise, and returns 0. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.

The following functions determine whether case mappings have any effect on a Unicode string.

Function: int u8_is_cased (const uint8_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u16_is_cased (const uint16_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)
Function: int u32_is_cased (const uint32_t *s, size_t n, const char *iso639_language, bool *resultp)

Sets *resultp to true if case matters for s, that is, if mapping NFD(s) to either upper case or lower case or title case is not a no-op. Set *resultp to false if NFD(s) maps to itself under the upper case mapping, under the lower case mapping, and under the title case mapping; in other words, when NFD(s) consists entirely of caseless characters. Upon failure, returns -1 with errno set.


15 Regular expressions <uniregex.h>

This include file is not yet implemented.


16 Using the library

This chapter explains some practical considerations, regarding the installation and compiler options that are needed in order to use this library.


16.1 Installation

Before you can use the library, it must be installed. First, you have to make sure all dependencies are installed. They are listed in the file DEPENDENCIES.

Then you can proceed to build and install the library, as described in the file INSTALL. For installation on Windows systems, please refer to the file INSTALL.windows.


16.2 Compiler options

Let’s denote as LIBUNISTRING_PREFIX the value of the ‘--prefix’ option that you passed to configure while installing this package. If you didn’t pass any ‘--prefix’ option, then the package is installed in /usr/local.

Let’s denote as LIBUNISTRING_INCLUDEDIR the directory where the include files were installed. This is usually the same as ${LIBUNISTRING_PREFIX}/include. Except that if you passed an ‘--includedir’ option to configure, it is the value of that option.

Let’s further denote as LIBUNISTRING_LIBDIR the directory where the library itself was installed. This is the value that you passed with the ‘--libdir’ option to configure, or otherwise the same as ${LIBUNISTRING_PREFIX}/lib. Recall that when building in 64-bit mode on a 64-bit GNU/Linux system that supports executables in either 64-bit mode or 32-bit mode, you should have used the option --libdir=${LIBUNISTRING_PREFIX}/lib64.

So that the compiler finds the include files, you have to pass it the option -I${LIBUNISTRING_INCLUDEDIR}.

So that the compiler finds the library during its linking pass, you have to pass it the options -L${LIBUNISTRING_LIBDIR} -lunistring. On some systems, in some configurations, you also have to pass options needed for linking with libiconv. The autoconf macro gl_LIBUNISTRING (see Autoconf macro) deals with this particularity.


16.3 Include files

Most of the include files have been presented in the introduction, see Introduction, and subsequent detailed chapters.

Another include file is <unistring/version.h>. It contains the version number of the libunistring library.

Macro: int _LIBUNISTRING_VERSION

This constant contains the version of libunistring that is being used at compile time. It encodes the major, minor, and subminor parts of the version number. These parts are encoded in the form (major<<16) + (minor<<8) + subminor.

Constant: int _libunistring_version

This constant contains the version of libunistring that is being used at run time. It encodes the major, minor, and subminor parts of the version number. These parts are encoded in the form (major<<16) + (minor<<8) + subminor.

It is possible that _libunistring_version is greater than _LIBUNISTRING_VERSION. This can happen when you use libunistring as a shared library, and a newer, binary backward-compatible version has been installed after your program that uses libunistring was installed.

<unistring/version.h> also contains:

Constant: int _libunistring_unicode_version

This constant contains the version of the Unicode standard that is implemented by libunistring. It encodes the major and minor parts of the version number only. These parts are encoded in the form (major<<8) + minor.


16.4 Autoconf macro

GNU Gnulib provides an autoconf macro that tests for the availability of libunistring. It is contained in the Gnulib module ‘libunistring’, see https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/MODULES.html#module=libunistring.

The macro is called gl_LIBUNISTRING. It searches for an installed libunistring. If found, it sets and AC_SUBSTs HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=yes and the LIBUNISTRING and LTLIBUNISTRING variables and augments the CPPFLAGS variable, and defines the C macro HAVE_LIBUNISTRING to 1. Otherwise, it sets and AC_SUBSTs HAVE_LIBUNISTRING=no and LIBUNISTRING and LTLIBUNISTRING to empty.

The complexities that gl_LIBUNISTRING deals with are the following:

  • On some operating systems, in some configurations, libunistring depends on libiconv, and the options for linking with libiconv must be mentioned explicitly on the link command line.
  • GNU libunistring, if installed, is not necessarily already in the search path (CPPFLAGS for the include file search path, LDFLAGS for the library search path).
  • GNU libunistring, if installed, is not necessarily already in the run time library search path. To avoid the need for setting an environment variable like LD_LIBRARY_PATH, the macro adds the appropriate run time search path options to the LIBUNISTRING variable. This works on most systems.

16.5 Reporting problems

If you encounter any problem, please don’t hesitate to submit a detailed bug report either in the bug tracker at the project page https://savannah.gnu.org/projects/libunistring, or by email to the bug-libunistring@gnu.org mailing list.

Please always include the version number of this library, and a short description of your operating system and compilation environment with corresponding version numbers.

For problems that appear while building and installing libunistring, for which you don’t find the remedy in the INSTALL file, please include a description of the options that you passed to the ‘configure’ script.


17 More advanced functionality

For bidirectional reordering of strings, we recommend the GNU FriBidi library: http://www.fribidi.org/.

For the rendering of Unicode strings outside of the context of a given toolkit (KDE/Qt or GNOME/Gtk), we recommend the Pango library: https://www.pango.org/.


Appendix A The wchar_t mess

The ISO C and POSIX standard creators made an attempt to fix the first problem mentioned in the section char *’ strings. They introduced

Unfortunately, this API and its implementation has numerous problems:

As a consequence, it is better to use multibyte strings, as explained in the section char *’ strings. Such multibyte strings can bypass limitations of the wchar_t type, if you use functions defined in gnulib and libunistring for text processing. They can also faithfully transport malformed characters that were present in the input, without requiring the program to produce garbage or abort.


Appendix B The char32_t problem

In response to the wchar_t mess described in the previous section, ISO C 11 introduces two new types: char32_t and char16_t.

char32_t is a type like wchar_t, with the added guarantee that it is 32 bits wide. So, it is a type that is appropriate for encoding a Unicode character. It is meant to resolve the problems of the 16-bit wide wchar_t on AIX and Windows platforms, and allow a saner programming model for wide character strings across all platforms.

char16_t is a type like wchar_t, with the added guarantee that it is 16 bits wide. It is meant to allow porting programs that use the broken wide character strings programming model from Windows to all platforms. Of course, no one needs this.

These types are accompanied with a syntax for defining wide string literals with these element types: u"..." and U"...".

So far, so good. What the ISO C designers forgot, is to provide standardized C library functions that operate on these wide character strings. They standardized only the most basic functions, mbrtoc32 and c32rtomb, which are analogous to mbrtowc and wcrtomb, respectively. For the rest, GNU gnulib https://www.gnu.org/software/gnulib/ provides the functions:

Still, this API has two problems:


Appendix C Licenses

The files of this package are covered by the licenses indicated in each particular file or directory. Here is a summary:


C.1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE

Version 3, 29 June 2007
Copyright © 2007 Free Software Foundation, Inc. https://fsf.org/

Everyone is permitted to copy and distribute verbatim copies of this
license document, but changing it is not allowed.

Preamble

The GNU General Public License is a free, copyleft license for software and other kinds of works.

The licenses for most software and other practical works are designed to take away your freedom to share and change the works. By contrast, the GNU General Public License is intended to guarantee your freedom to share and change all versions of a program—to make sure it remains free software for all its users. We, the Free Software Foundation, use the GNU General Public License for most of our software; it applies also to any other work released this way by its authors. You can apply it to your programs, too.

When we speak of free software, we are referring to freedom, not price. Our General Public Licenses are designed to make sure that you have the freedom to distribute copies of free software (and charge for them if you wish), that you receive source code or can get it if you want it, that you can change the software or use pieces of it in new free programs, and that you know you can do these things.

To protect your rights, we need to prevent others from denying you these rights or asking you to surrender the rights. Therefore, you have certain responsibilities if you distribute copies of the software, or if you modify it: responsibilities to respect the freedom of others.

For example, if you distribute copies of such a program, whether gratis or for a fee, you must pass on to the recipients the same freedoms that you received. You must make sure that they, too, receive or can get the source code. And you must show them these terms so they know their rights.

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  17. Limitation of Liability.

    IN NO EVENT UNLESS REQUIRED BY APPLICABLE LAW OR AGREED TO IN WRITING WILL ANY COPYRIGHT HOLDER, OR ANY OTHER PARTY WHO MODIFIES AND/OR CONVEYS THE PROGRAM AS PERMITTED ABOVE, BE LIABLE TO YOU FOR DAMAGES, INCLUDING ANY GENERAL, SPECIAL, INCIDENTAL OR CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES ARISING OUT OF THE USE OR INABILITY TO USE THE PROGRAM (INCLUDING BUT NOT LIMITED TO LOSS OF DATA OR DATA BEING RENDERED INACCURATE OR LOSSES SUSTAINED BY YOU OR THIRD PARTIES OR A FAILURE OF THE PROGRAM TO OPERATE WITH ANY OTHER PROGRAMS), EVEN IF SUCH HOLDER OR OTHER PARTY HAS BEEN ADVISED OF THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGES.

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END OF TERMS AND CONDITIONS

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Also add information on how to contact you by electronic and paper mail.

If the program does terminal interaction, make it output a short notice like this when it starts in an interactive mode:

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The hypothetical commands ‘show w’ and ‘show c’ should show the appropriate parts of the General Public License. Of course, your program’s commands might be different; for a GUI interface, you would use an “about box”.

You should also get your employer (if you work as a programmer) or school, if any, to sign a “copyright disclaimer” for the program, if necessary. For more information on this, and how to apply and follow the GNU GPL, see https://www.gnu.org/licenses/.

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    “The Library” refers to a covered work governed by this License, other than an Application or a Combined Work as defined below.

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Index Entry  Section

A
ambiguous width: uniwidth.h
Arabic shaping: Arabic shaping
argument conventions: Conventions
autoconf macro: Autoconf macro

B
bidi class: Bidi class
bidirectional category: Bidi class
bidirectional reordering: More functionality
block: Blocks
boundaries, between grapheme clusters: unigbrk.h
boundaries, between words: uniwbrk.h
breaks, grapheme cluster: unigbrk.h
breaks, line: unilbrk.h
breaks, word: uniwbrk.h
bug reports: Reporting problems
bug tracker: Reporting problems

C
C string functions: char * strings
C, programming language: ISO C and Java syntax
C-like API: Classifications like in ISO C
canonical combining class: Canonical combining class
case detection: Case detection
case mappings: Case mappings of strings
casing_prefix_context_t: Case mappings of substrings
casing_suffix_context_t: Case mappings of substrings
char, type: char * strings
char16_t, type: The char32_t problem
char32_t, type: The char32_t problem
combining, Unicode characters: Composition of characters
comparing: Comparing Unicode strings
comparing: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
comparing, ignoring case: Case insensitive comparison
comparing, ignoring case, with collation rules: Case insensitive comparison
comparing, ignoring normalization: Normalizing comparisons
comparing, ignoring normalization and case: Case insensitive comparison
comparing, ignoring normalization and case, with collation rules: Case insensitive comparison
comparing, ignoring normalization, with collation rules: Normalizing comparisons
comparing, with collation rules: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
comparing, with collation rules, ignoring case: Case insensitive comparison
comparing, with collation rules, ignoring normalization: Normalizing comparisons
comparing, with collation rules, ignoring normalization and case: Case insensitive comparison
compiler options: Compiler options
composing, Unicode characters: Composition of characters
converting: Elementary string conversions
converting: uniconv.h
copying: Copying Unicode strings
copying: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
counting: Counting characters

D
decomposing: Decomposition of characters
dependencies: Installation
detecting case: Case detection
duplicating: Elementary string functions with memory allocation
duplicating: Duplicating a NUL terminated Unicode string

E
enum iconv_ilseq_handler: uniconv.h

F
FDL, GNU Free Documentation License: GNU FDL
formatted output: unistdio.h
fullwidth: uniwidth.h

G
general category: General category
gl_LIBUNISTRING: Autoconf macro
GPL, GNU General Public License: GNU GPL
grapheme cluster boundaries: unigbrk.h
grapheme cluster breaks: unigbrk.h

H
halfwidth: uniwidth.h

I
identifiers: ISO C and Java syntax
Indic_Conjunct_Break: Indic conjunct break
installation: Installation
internationalization: Unicode and i18n
iterating: Iterating
iterating: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string

J
Java, programming language: ISO C and Java syntax
joining group: Joining group
joining of Arabic characters: Arabic shaping
joining type: Joining type

L
LGPL, GNU Lesser General Public License: GNU LGPL
License, GNU FDL: GNU FDL
License, GNU GPL: GNU GPL
License, GNU LGPL: GNU LGPL
Licenses: Licenses
line breaks: unilbrk.h
locale: Locale encodings
locale categories: Locale encodings
locale encoding: Locale encodings
locale encoding: uniconv.h
locale language: Case mappings of strings
locale, multibyte: char * strings
locale_charset: uniconv.h
lowercasing: Case mappings of strings

M
mailing list: Reporting problems
mirroring, of Unicode character: Mirrored character

N
normal forms: uninorm.h
normalizing: uninorm.h

O
output, formatted: unistdio.h

P
properties, of Unicode character: Properties

R
regular expression: uniregex.h
rendering: More functionality
return value conventions: Conventions

S
scripts: Scripts
searching, for a character: Searching for a character
searching, for a character: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
searching, for a substring: Searching for a substring
stream, normalizing a: Normalization of streams
struct uninorm_filter: Normalization of streams

T
titlecasing: Case mappings of strings

U
u16_asnprintf: unistdio.h
u16_asprintf: unistdio.h
u16_casecmp: Case insensitive comparison
u16_casecoll: Case insensitive comparison
u16_casefold: Case insensitive comparison
u16_casexfrm: Case insensitive comparison
u16_casing_prefixes_context: Case mappings of substrings
u16_casing_prefix_context: Case mappings of substrings
u16_casing_suffixes_context: Case mappings of substrings
u16_casing_suffix_context: Case mappings of substrings
u16_check: Elementary string checks
u16_chr: Searching for a character
u16_cmp: Comparing Unicode strings
u16_cmp2: Comparing Unicode strings
u16_conv_from_encoding: uniconv.h
u16_conv_to_encoding: uniconv.h
u16_cpy: Copying Unicode strings
u16_cpy_alloc: Elementary string functions with memory allocation
u16_ct_casefold: Case insensitive comparison
u16_ct_tolower: Case mappings of substrings
u16_ct_totitle: Case mappings of substrings
u16_ct_toupper: Case mappings of substrings
u16_endswith: Searching for a substring
u16_grapheme_breaks: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u16_grapheme_next: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u16_grapheme_prev: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u16_is_cased: Case detection
u16_is_casefolded: Case detection
u16_is_lowercase: Case detection
u16_is_titlecase: Case detection
u16_is_uppercase: Case detection
u16_mblen: Iterating
u16_mbsnlen: Counting characters
u16_mbtouc: Iterating
u16_mbtoucr: Iterating
u16_mbtouc_unsafe: Iterating
u16_move: Copying Unicode strings
u16_next: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_normalize: Normalization of strings
u16_normcmp: Normalizing comparisons
u16_normcoll: Normalizing comparisons
u16_normxfrm: Normalizing comparisons
u16_pcpy: Copying Unicode strings
u16_possible_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
u16_prev: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_set: Copying Unicode strings
u16_snprintf: unistdio.h
u16_sprintf: unistdio.h
u16_startswith: Searching for a substring
u16_stpcpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_stpncpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strcat: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strchr: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strcmp: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u16_strcoll: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u16_strconv_from_encoding: uniconv.h
u16_strconv_from_locale: uniconv.h
u16_strconv_to_encoding: uniconv.h
u16_strconv_to_locale: uniconv.h
u16_strcpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strcspn: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strdup: Duplicating a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strlen: Length
u16_strmblen: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strmbtouc: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strncat: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strncmp: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u16_strncpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strnlen: Length
u16_strpbrk: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strrchr: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strspn: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u16_strstr: Searching for a substring
u16_strtok: Tokenizing
u16_strwidth: uniwidth.h
u16_tolower: Case mappings of strings
u16_totitle: Case mappings of strings
u16_toupper: Case mappings of strings
u16_to_u32: Elementary string conversions
u16_to_u8: Elementary string conversions
u16_u16_asnprintf: unistdio.h
u16_u16_asprintf: unistdio.h
u16_u16_snprintf: unistdio.h
u16_u16_sprintf: unistdio.h
u16_u16_vasnprintf: unistdio.h
u16_u16_vasprintf: unistdio.h
u16_u16_vsnprintf: unistdio.h
u16_u16_vsprintf: unistdio.h
u16_uctomb: Creating Unicode strings
u16_vasnprintf: unistdio.h
u16_vasprintf: unistdio.h
u16_vsnprintf: unistdio.h
u16_vsprintf: unistdio.h
u16_width: uniwidth.h
u16_width_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
u16_wordbreaks: Word breaks in a string
u32_asnprintf: unistdio.h
u32_asprintf: unistdio.h
u32_casecmp: Case insensitive comparison
u32_casecoll: Case insensitive comparison
u32_casefold: Case insensitive comparison
u32_casexfrm: Case insensitive comparison
u32_casing_prefixes_context: Case mappings of substrings
u32_casing_prefix_context: Case mappings of substrings
u32_casing_suffixes_context: Case mappings of substrings
u32_casing_suffix_context: Case mappings of substrings
u32_check: Elementary string checks
u32_chr: Searching for a character
u32_cmp: Comparing Unicode strings
u32_cmp2: Comparing Unicode strings
u32_conv_from_encoding: uniconv.h
u32_conv_to_encoding: uniconv.h
u32_cpy: Copying Unicode strings
u32_cpy_alloc: Elementary string functions with memory allocation
u32_ct_casefold: Case insensitive comparison
u32_ct_tolower: Case mappings of substrings
u32_ct_totitle: Case mappings of substrings
u32_ct_toupper: Case mappings of substrings
u32_endswith: Searching for a substring
u32_grapheme_breaks: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u32_grapheme_next: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u32_grapheme_prev: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u32_is_cased: Case detection
u32_is_casefolded: Case detection
u32_is_lowercase: Case detection
u32_is_titlecase: Case detection
u32_is_uppercase: Case detection
u32_mblen: Iterating
u32_mbsnlen: Counting characters
u32_mbtouc: Iterating
u32_mbtoucr: Iterating
u32_mbtouc_unsafe: Iterating
u32_move: Copying Unicode strings
u32_next: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_normalize: Normalization of strings
u32_normcmp: Normalizing comparisons
u32_normcoll: Normalizing comparisons
u32_normxfrm: Normalizing comparisons
u32_pcpy: Copying Unicode strings
u32_possible_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
u32_prev: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_set: Copying Unicode strings
u32_snprintf: unistdio.h
u32_sprintf: unistdio.h
u32_startswith: Searching for a substring
u32_stpcpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_stpncpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strcat: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strchr: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strcmp: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u32_strcoll: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u32_strconv_from_encoding: uniconv.h
u32_strconv_from_locale: uniconv.h
u32_strconv_to_encoding: uniconv.h
u32_strconv_to_locale: uniconv.h
u32_strcpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strcspn: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strdup: Duplicating a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strlen: Length
u32_strmblen: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strmbtouc: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strncat: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strncmp: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u32_strncpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strnlen: Length
u32_strpbrk: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strrchr: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strspn: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u32_strstr: Searching for a substring
u32_strtok: Tokenizing
u32_strwidth: uniwidth.h
u32_tolower: Case mappings of strings
u32_totitle: Case mappings of strings
u32_toupper: Case mappings of strings
u32_to_u16: Elementary string conversions
u32_to_u8: Elementary string conversions
u32_u32_asnprintf: unistdio.h
u32_u32_asprintf: unistdio.h
u32_u32_snprintf: unistdio.h
u32_u32_sprintf: unistdio.h
u32_u32_vasnprintf: unistdio.h
u32_u32_vasprintf: unistdio.h
u32_u32_vsnprintf: unistdio.h
u32_u32_vsprintf: unistdio.h
u32_uctomb: Creating Unicode strings
u32_vasnprintf: unistdio.h
u32_vasprintf: unistdio.h
u32_vsnprintf: unistdio.h
u32_vsprintf: unistdio.h
u32_width: uniwidth.h
u32_width_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
u32_wordbreaks: Word breaks in a string
u8_asnprintf: unistdio.h
u8_asprintf: unistdio.h
u8_casecmp: Case insensitive comparison
u8_casecoll: Case insensitive comparison
u8_casefold: Case insensitive comparison
u8_casexfrm: Case insensitive comparison
u8_casing_prefixes_context: Case mappings of substrings
u8_casing_prefix_context: Case mappings of substrings
u8_casing_suffixes_context: Case mappings of substrings
u8_casing_suffix_context: Case mappings of substrings
u8_check: Elementary string checks
u8_chr: Searching for a character
u8_cmp: Comparing Unicode strings
u8_cmp2: Comparing Unicode strings
u8_conv_from_encoding: uniconv.h
u8_conv_to_encoding: uniconv.h
u8_cpy: Copying Unicode strings
u8_cpy_alloc: Elementary string functions with memory allocation
u8_ct_casefold: Case insensitive comparison
u8_ct_tolower: Case mappings of substrings
u8_ct_totitle: Case mappings of substrings
u8_ct_toupper: Case mappings of substrings
u8_endswith: Searching for a substring
u8_grapheme_breaks: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u8_grapheme_next: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u8_grapheme_prev: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
u8_is_cased: Case detection
u8_is_casefolded: Case detection
u8_is_lowercase: Case detection
u8_is_titlecase: Case detection
u8_is_uppercase: Case detection
u8_mblen: Iterating
u8_mbsnlen: Counting characters
u8_mbtouc: Iterating
u8_mbtoucr: Iterating
u8_mbtouc_unsafe: Iterating
u8_move: Copying Unicode strings
u8_next: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_normalize: Normalization of strings
u8_normcmp: Normalizing comparisons
u8_normcoll: Normalizing comparisons
u8_normxfrm: Normalizing comparisons
u8_pcpy: Copying Unicode strings
u8_possible_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
u8_prev: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_set: Copying Unicode strings
u8_snprintf: unistdio.h
u8_sprintf: unistdio.h
u8_startswith: Searching for a substring
u8_stpcpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_stpncpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strcat: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strchr: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strcmp: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u8_strcoll: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u8_strconv_from_encoding: uniconv.h
u8_strconv_from_locale: uniconv.h
u8_strconv_to_encoding: uniconv.h
u8_strconv_to_locale: uniconv.h
u8_strcpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strcspn: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strdup: Duplicating a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strlen: Length
u8_strmblen: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strmbtouc: Iterating over a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strncat: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strncmp: Comparing NUL terminated Unicode strings
u8_strncpy: Copying a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strnlen: Length
u8_strpbrk: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strrchr: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strspn: Searching for a character in a NUL terminated Unicode string
u8_strstr: Searching for a substring
u8_strtok: Tokenizing
u8_strwidth: uniwidth.h
u8_tolower: Case mappings of strings
u8_totitle: Case mappings of strings
u8_toupper: Case mappings of strings
u8_to_u16: Elementary string conversions
u8_to_u32: Elementary string conversions
u8_u8_asnprintf: unistdio.h
u8_u8_asprintf: unistdio.h
u8_u8_snprintf: unistdio.h
u8_u8_sprintf: unistdio.h
u8_u8_vasnprintf: unistdio.h
u8_u8_vasprintf: unistdio.h
u8_u8_vsnprintf: unistdio.h
u8_u8_vsprintf: unistdio.h
u8_uctomb: Creating Unicode strings
u8_vasnprintf: unistdio.h
u8_vasprintf: unistdio.h
u8_vsnprintf: unistdio.h
u8_vsprintf: unistdio.h
u8_width: uniwidth.h
u8_width_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
u8_wordbreaks: Word breaks in a string
UCS-4: Unicode
ucs4_t: unitypes.h
uc_all_blocks: Blocks
uc_all_scripts: Scripts
uc_bidi_category: Bidi class
uc_bidi_category_byname: Bidi class
uc_bidi_category_name: Bidi class
uc_bidi_class: Bidi class
uc_bidi_class_byname: Bidi class
uc_bidi_class_long_name: Bidi class
uc_bidi_class_name: Bidi class
uc_block: Blocks
uc_block_t: Blocks
uc_canonical_decomposition: Decomposition of characters
uc_combining_class: Canonical combining class
uc_combining_class_byname: Canonical combining class
uc_combining_class_long_name: Canonical combining class
uc_combining_class_name: Canonical combining class
uc_composition: Composition of characters
uc_c_ident_category: ISO C and Java syntax
uc_decimal_value: Decimal digit value
uc_decomposition: Decomposition of characters
uc_digit_value: Digit value
uc_fraction_t: Numeric value
uc_general_category: Object oriented API
uc_general_category_and: Object oriented API
uc_general_category_and_not: Object oriented API
uc_general_category_byname: Object oriented API
uc_general_category_long_name: Object oriented API
uc_general_category_name: Object oriented API
uc_general_category_or: Object oriented API
uc_general_category_t: Object oriented API
uc_graphemeclusterbreak_property: Grapheme cluster break property
uc_grapheme_breaks: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
uc_indic_conjunct_break: Indic conjunct break
uc_indic_conjunct_break_byname: Indic conjunct break
uc_indic_conjunct_break_name: Indic conjunct break
uc_is_alnum: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_alpha: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_bidi_category: Bidi class
uc_is_bidi_class: Bidi class
uc_is_blank: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_block: Blocks
uc_is_cntrl: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_c_whitespace: ISO C and Java syntax
uc_is_digit: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_general_category: Object oriented API
uc_is_general_category_withtable: Bit mask API
uc_is_graph: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_grapheme_break: Grapheme cluster break property
uc_is_java_whitespace: ISO C and Java syntax
uc_is_lower: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_print: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_property: Properties as objects
uc_is_property_alphabetic: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_ascii_hex_digit: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_arabic_digit: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_arabic_right_to_left: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_block_separator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_boundary_neutral: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_common_separator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_control: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_embedding_or_override: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_european_digit: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_eur_num_separator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_eur_num_terminator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_hebrew_right_to_left: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_left_to_right: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_non_spacing_mark: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_other_neutral: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_pdf: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_segment_separator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_bidi_whitespace: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_cased: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_case_ignorable: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_changes_when_casefolded: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_changes_when_casemapped: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_changes_when_lowercased: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_changes_when_titlecased: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_changes_when_uppercased: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_combining: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_composite: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_currency_symbol: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_dash: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_decimal_digit: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_default_ignorable_code_point: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_deprecated: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_diacritic: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_emoji: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_emoji_component: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_emoji_modifier: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_emoji_modifier_base: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_emoji_presentation: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_extended_pictographic: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_extender: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_format_control: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_grapheme_base: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_grapheme_extend: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_grapheme_link: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_hex_digit: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_hyphen: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_ideographic: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_ids_binary_operator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_ids_trinary_operator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_ids_unary_operator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_id_compat_math_continue: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_id_compat_math_start: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_id_continue: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_id_start: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_ignorable_control: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_iso_control: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_join_control: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_left_of_pair: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_line_separator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_logical_order_exception: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_lowercase: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_math: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_non_break: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_not_a_character: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_numeric: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_alphabetic: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_default_ignorable_code_point: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_grapheme_extend: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_id_continue: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_id_start: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_lowercase: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_math: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_other_uppercase: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_paired_punctuation: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_paragraph_separator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_pattern_syntax: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_pattern_white_space: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_prepended_concatenation_mark: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_private_use: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_punctuation: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_quotation_mark: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_radical: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_regional_indicator: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_sentence_terminal: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_soft_dotted: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_space: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_terminal_punctuation: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_titlecase: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_unassigned_code_value: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_unified_ideograph: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_uppercase: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_variation_selector: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_white_space: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_xid_continue: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_xid_start: Properties as functions
uc_is_property_zero_width: Properties as functions
uc_is_punct: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_script: Scripts
uc_is_space: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_upper: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_is_xdigit: Classifications like in ISO C
uc_java_ident_category: ISO C and Java syntax
uc_joining_group: Joining group
uc_joining_group_byname: Joining group
uc_joining_group_name: Joining group
uc_joining_type: Joining type
uc_joining_type_byname: Joining type
uc_joining_type_long_name: Joining type
uc_joining_type_name: Joining type
uc_locale_language: Case mappings of strings
uc_mirror_char: Mirrored character
uc_numeric_value: Numeric value
uc_property_byname: Properties as objects
uc_property_is_valid: Properties as objects
uc_property_t: Properties as objects
uc_script: Scripts
uc_script_byname: Scripts
uc_script_t: Scripts
uc_tolower: Case mappings of characters
uc_totitle: Case mappings of characters
uc_toupper: Case mappings of characters
uc_width: uniwidth.h
uc_wordbreak_property: Word break property
uint16_t: unitypes.h
uint32_t: unitypes.h
uint8_t: unitypes.h
ulc_asnprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_asprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_casecmp: Case insensitive comparison
ulc_casecoll: Case insensitive comparison
ulc_casexfrm: Case insensitive comparison
ulc_fprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_grapheme_breaks: Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
ulc_possible_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
ulc_snprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_sprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_vasnprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_vasprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_vfprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_vsnprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_vsprintf: unistdio.h
ulc_width_linebreaks: unilbrk.h
ulc_wordbreaks: Word breaks in a string
Unicode: Unicode
Unicode character, bidi class: Bidi class
Unicode character, bidirectional category: Bidi class
Unicode character, block: Blocks
Unicode character, canonical combining class: Canonical combining class
Unicode character, case mappings: Case mappings of characters
Unicode character, classification: General category
Unicode character, classification like in C: Classifications like in ISO C
Unicode character, general category: General category
Unicode character, mirroring: Mirrored character
Unicode character, name: uniname.h
Unicode character, properties: Properties
Unicode character, script: Scripts
Unicode character, validity in C identifiers: ISO C and Java syntax
Unicode character, validity in Java identifiers: ISO C and Java syntax
Unicode character, value: Decimal digit value
Unicode character, value: Digit value
Unicode character, value: Numeric value
Unicode character, width: uniwidth.h
unicode_character_name: uniname.h
unicode_name_character: uniname.h
uninorm_decomposing_form: Normalization of strings
uninorm_filter_create: Normalization of streams
uninorm_filter_flush: Normalization of streams
uninorm_filter_free: Normalization of streams
uninorm_filter_write: Normalization of streams
uninorm_is_compat_decomposing: Normalization of strings
uninorm_is_composing: Normalization of strings
uninorm_t: Normalization of strings
uppercasing: Case mappings of strings
use cases: Introduction
UTF-16: Unicode
UTF-16, strings: Unicode strings
UTF-32: Unicode
UTF-32, strings: Unicode strings
UTF-8: Unicode
UTF-8, strings: Unicode strings

V
validity: Elementary string checks
value, of libunistring: Introduction
value, of Unicode character: Decimal digit value
value, of Unicode character: Digit value
value, of Unicode character: Numeric value
verification: Elementary string checks

W
wchar_t, type: The wchar_t mess
well-formed: Elementary string checks
width: uniwidth.h
word boundaries: uniwbrk.h
word breaks: uniwbrk.h
wrapping: unilbrk.h

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Footnotes

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A NUL unit as terminator is not needed, since the number of units is given by n. If some of the units of the string are NUL, they are just regular units; they are not interpreted as terminators.