Hi,

I saw the [wanted libraries] page on the github wiki, and I'd like to submit 
some ideas there.
The wiki page is read-only, so I fall back on submitting them on this list.

I tried to confine myself to what would be useful to me, in a stdlib.

* Internationalization : mechanisms for handling the internationalization of UI 
texts
 -> one aspect of i18n is to map a key to a text, based on the current locale 
(eg Java's [ResourceBundle])
 -> another aspect is to format a string based on the current locale (eg Java's 
[MessageFormat])
 
* Libicu is already listed on the wiki, but there are no details of what is 
needed. Here are my suggestions :
 -> Convertions between text encodings. Ideally, with a customizable way of 
handling conversion errors.
 -> Unicode normalization (NFD, NFC, NFKD, NFKC)
 -> Collator (locale sensitive string comparison), with a configurable degree 
of strictness

* Simple (yet powerful) search on a filesystem (eg Ruby's [glob])

* A simple tokenizer/file parser

* Support to read/write zip and tar file formats (not only the gzip algorithm)


Olivier Renaud
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[wanted libraries] https://github.com/mozilla/rust/wiki/Note-wanted-libraries
[ResourceBundle] 
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/util/ResourceBundle.html
[MessageFormat] 
http://docs.oracle.com/javase/7/docs/api/java/text/MessageFormat.html
[glob] http://ruby-doc.org/core-2.0/Dir.html#method-c-glob
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