Hi, I'm Mr Lazy,
I have this simple little program, it uses locales (a bit) and even
has simple gettext internationalisation, now I want to convert it so
that it'll work on a completely UTF-8 locale _or_ a ISO8859-* locale
(as it does now) or even an ISO8859-* interface on a UTF-8 system.
You'll notice, upto now 'I' haven't been near wide characters and really
I've no liking for re-writing this program using wide characters so I
expect to be using UTF-8 internally in the program (only if the locale
is UTF-8 ?) and replacing normal C _byte_ string functions with utf-8
character or screen cell counting equlivents when needed. Further I'd
like a nice efficient (lazy!) way of converting to ISO-8859-* at _some_
of the boundries of the system. I'm not interested in JIS*, KSC5636 or
GB2312 but would prefer something that supports them invisibly.
Some things I've spotted:
libunicode -- Nope, uses UTF-16 (****, I _hate_ that vicious halfbreed!)
libutf-8 -- Again uses wide chars, at least they're UCS-4
(Hmm, there appears to be more than one libutf ...)
libiconv -- A little complex and a pig to drive, Mr lazy can't be
bothered to use it.
So, given this, I'm looking for libraries. Probably an unlimited string
package (so I don't have to worry about buffer overflows either) an
error oblivious character set converter (personally I'd just wrap iconv)
and a character screen display package that understands these strings
(eg. perhaps, does UTF-8 <-> locale conversion).
What do you recommend?
--
Rob. (Robert de Bath <robert$ @ debath.co.uk>)
<http://www.cix.co.uk/~mayday>
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