[REBOL] Re: UNICODE SUPORT (was Re: Re: Google + SOAP)
From: louisaturk::eudoramail::com at: 21-Apr-2002 0:22
Holger,
When you finally get to unicode, perhaps the following free open source c
library will be worth looking at. Now I'm not trying to hurry you up or
anything like that. :>)
Louis
http://www-124.ibm.com/icu/
International Components for Unicode
Documentation
Overview
In the International Components for Unicode, there are several categories
of functionality:
Low-level Unicode/Resource Attributes: ("common" library)
Utilities for Unicode Character and String Handling
Unicode String Class
Conversion Interface
Locale handling
Resource Bundles
High-level Unicode Internationalization: ("i18n" library)
Text Boundary Analysis (Word/Sentence Break Iterators)
Collation (Sorting)
Formatting =97 Date/Time/Numbers/Currency
Transliteration
Layout Engine for Complex Text
Takes runs of styled Unicode text and builds data structures for display
and printing. (A rasterizer is not included.)
Character Set Information
As part of the ICU project, we are collecting mapping tables between
Unicode and legacy codepages from actual implementations (operating
systems). We make them available as a service to everyone. The tables are
provided in a format for use with ICU, as well as a format developed by the
Unicode Consortium. See our charset page.
Unicode-stdio ("ustdio") library
This is a library with input/output functions similar to the C stdio
library. It is currently not supported but provided as-is.
ICU uses the Java model for locale-hierarchical resource bundles. Multiple
locales can be used at a time.
ICU is thread-safe: Different ICU service objects can be used by different
threads.
For more details, see the (draft) User Guide and the API References below.
API References
Main Index
Alphabetical Index of all C++ classes in ICU
Class Hierarchy index
What computer languages does ICU support?
ICU4C (ICU) is written in C and C++, and ICU4J is written in Java=99.
ICU License - ICU 1.8.1 and later
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