GNU libunistring: GNU libunistring

1. Introduction
- 1.1 Unicode
- 1.2 Unicode and Internationalization
- 1.3 Locale encodings
- 1.4 Choice of in-memory representation of strings
- 1.5 ‘char *’ strings
- 1.6 Unicode strings
2. Conventions
3. Elementary types <unitypes.h>
4. Elementary Unicode string functions <unistr.h>
- 4.1 Elementary string checks
- 4.2 Elementary string conversions
- 4.3 Elementary string functions
- 4.4 Elementary string functions with memory allocation
- 4.5 Elementary string functions on NUL terminated strings
5. Conversions between Unicode and encodings <uniconv.h>
6. Output with Unicode strings <unistdio.h>
7. Names of Unicode characters <uniname.h>
8. Unicode character classification and properties <unictype.h>
- 8.1 General category
  - 8.1.1 The object oriented API for general category
  - 8.1.2 The bit mask API for general category
- 8.2 Canonical combining class
- 8.3 Bidi class
- 8.4 Decimal digit value
- 8.5 Digit value
- 8.6 Numeric value
- 8.7 Mirrored character
- 8.8 Arabic shaping
  - 8.8.1 Joining type of Arabic characters
  - 8.8.2 Joining group of Arabic characters
- 8.9 Properties
  - 8.9.1 Properties as objects – the object oriented API
  - 8.9.2 Properties as functions – the functional API
- 8.10 Other attributes
  - 8.10.1 Indic conjunct break
- 8.11 Scripts
- 8.12 Blocks
- 8.13 ISO C and Java syntax
- 8.14 Classifications like in ISO C
9. Display width <uniwidth.h>
10. Grapheme cluster breaks in strings <unigbrk.h>
- 10.1 Grapheme cluster breaks in a string
- 10.2 Grapheme cluster break property
11. Word breaks in strings <uniwbrk.h>
- 11.1 Word breaks in a string
- 11.2 Word break property
12. Line breaking <unilbrk.h>
13. Normalization forms (composition and decomposition) <uninorm.h>
- 13.1 Decomposition of Unicode characters
- 13.2 Composition of Unicode characters
- 13.3 Normalization of strings
- 13.4 Normalizing comparisons
- 13.5 Normalization of streams of Unicode characters
14. Case mappings <unicase.h>
- 14.1 Case mappings of characters
- 14.2 Case mappings of strings
- 14.3 Case mappings of substrings
- 14.4 Case insensitive comparison
- 14.5 Case detection
15. Regular expressions <uniregex.h>
16. Using the library
- 16.1 Installation
- 16.2 Compiler options
- 16.3 Include files
- 16.4 Autoconf macro
- 16.5 Reporting problems
17. More advanced functionality
A. The wchar_t mess
B. The char32_t problem
C. Licenses
- C.1 GNU GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- C.2 GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE
- C.3 GNU Free Documentation License
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