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 Fältström
Bunyip Information Systems Inc
Montreal, CANADA
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