Within the development of the distributed directory service
software DIGGER which uses Whois++ technology we will now
start the development of public domain software libraries
written in C which takes care of fundamental string functions
such as:
- Optimization of strings
Some characters in the UNICODE table can be written by
using a different base character which is then followed by
one or more composition characters. An example is the
character 00C5 LATIN CAPITAL LETTER A WITH RING ABOVE
which can be written as 0041+030A. The idea behind this
function is to minimize the number of bytes in the
UNICODE string by converting all occurances of 0041+030A
into 00C5.
- Uppercase/Lowercase conversions
- Comparison routines
- Conversion to/from FSS-UTF and UNICODE
We will start doing this because I have not seen any public domain
libraries that do this so far.
If I am wrong, and such software libraries exists, please inform
me about it.
Also, I suppose that this is the right forum to discuss eventual
implementational issues of UNICODE software? Or does it exist another
mailinglist for that?
Regards, Patrik F�ltstr�m
Bunyip Information Systems Inc
Montreal, CANADA
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