Rob Cameron wrote: > As part of my research program into high-speed XML/Unicode/text > processing using SIMD techniques, I have experimented extensively > with the UTF-8 to UTF-16 conversion problem. I've generally been > comparing performance of my software with that of iconv under > Linux and Mac OS X. Are there any substantially faster implementations > available? Currently our u8u16-0.9 software runs about 3X to 25X faster > than iconv depending on platform and data characteristics. > > u8u16-0.9 is available as open source software under an OSL 3.0 license > at http://u8u16.costar.sfu.ca/ > >
I can't vouch for the relative performance because I haven't used it, but you might want to try ICU. The documentation for its character set converters is here: http://www.icu-project.org/userguide/codepageConverters.html -- Linux-UTF8: i18n of Linux on all levels Archive: http://mail.nl.linux.org/linux-utf8/
