GNU libunistring

GNU libunistring

• Introduction: Who may need Unicode strings?
• Conventions: Conventions used in this manual
• unitypes.h: Elementary types
• unistr.h: Elementary Unicode string functions
• uniconv.h: Conversions between Unicode and encodings
• unistdio.h: Output with Unicode strings
• uniname.h: Names of Unicode characters
• unictype.h: Unicode character classification and properties
• uniwidth.h: Display width
• uniwbrk.h: Word breaks in strings
• unilbrk.h: Line breaking
• uninorm.h: Normalization forms
• unicase.h: Case mappings
• uniregex.h: Regular expressions
• Using the library: How to link with the library and use it?
• More functionality: More advanced functionality
• Licenses: Licenses
• Index: General Index

--- The Detailed Node Listing ---

Introduction

• Unicode: What is Unicode?
• Unicode and i18n: Unicode and internationalization
• Locale encodings: What is a locale encoding?
• In-memory representation: How to represent strings in memory?
• char * strings: What to keep in mind with char * strings
• The wchar_t mess: Why wchar_t * strings are useless
• Unicode strings: How are Unicode strings represented?

unistr.h

• Elementary string checks
• Elementary string conversions
• Elementary string functions
• Elementary string functions with memory allocation
• Elementary string functions on NUL terminated strings

unictype.h

• General category
• Canonical combining class
• Bidirectional category
• Decimal digit value
• Digit value
• Numeric value
• Mirrored character
• Properties
• Scripts
• Blocks
• ISO C and Java syntax
• Classifications like in ISO C

General category

• Object oriented API
• Bit mask API

Properties

• Properties as objects
• Properties as functions

uniwbrk.h

• Word breaks in a string
• Word break property

uninorm.h

• Decomposition of characters
• Composition of characters
• Normalization of strings
• Normalizing comparisons
• Normalization of streams

unicase,h

• Case mappings of characters
• Case mappings of strings
• Case mappings of substrings
• Case insensitive comparison
• Case detection

Using the library

• Installation
• Compiler options
• Include files
• Autoconf macro
• Reporting problems

Licenses

• GNU GPL: GNU General Public License
• GNU LGPL: GNU Lesser General Public License
• GNU FDL: GNU Free Documentation License