Are there Unicode processors?

Hi Folks,

An "XML processor" breaks up an XML document into its parts -- here's a start tag, here's element content, here's an end tag, etc. -- and then makes those parts (along with information about each part such as "this part is a start tag" and "this part is element content") available to XML applications via an API.

Are there "Unicode processors"?

That is, are there processors that break up Unicode text into its parts -- here's a character, here's another character, here's still another character, etc. -- and then makes those parts (along with information about each part such as "this part is the Latin Capital Letter T" and "this part is the Latin Small Letter o") available to Unicode applications (such as XML processors) via an API?

I did a Google search for "Unicode processor" and came up empty so I am guessing the answer is that there are no Unicode processors. Or perhaps they go by a different name? If there are no Unicode processors, why not?

/Roger
Received on Mon Jan 07 2013 - 16:37:13 CST