"Carl W. Brown" wrote:
> If you are looking for a cross-platform tool for C/C++ then the best is ICU.
Thanks Ken & Carl!
> With the latest release (ICU 1.8) they have totally redone the logic for
> strict Unicode conformance.
Yes, and 1.8.1 makes it more conformant, faster, and cleans up the language-specific
rules.
> Currently I am developing an easy to implement
> interface (xIUA) that is also free Open Source code.
I would like to point out that ICU itself has a fully functional and useful
"interface" (API) for all of its services (conversion, collation, normalization,
formatting, etc.).
In particular, for as long as one works with UTF-16 strings, the ucol_strcoll()
function is quite easy to use.
It may help in some applications to use whatever wrapper one likes, but it is not
necessary to use a wrapper.
Also, if a wrapper library performs hidden string conversions, then a user needs to
understand the impact on performance and memory use.
ICU will add some helper functions to allow users to explicitly convert in-process
strings between UTFs. This is simple (even without such helper functions) and fast -
but of course not as fast as staying with a single encoding.
Best regards,
markus
