[Savannah-register-public] [task #9186] Submission of GNU libunistring

[Bruno Haible]

URL:
  <http://savannah.gnu.org/task/?9186>

                 Summary: Submission of GNU libunistring
                 Project: Savannah Administration
            Submitted by: haible
            Submitted on: Fr 13 Mär 2009 03:06:17 CET
         Should Start On: Fr 13 Mär 2009 00:00:00 CET
   Should be Finished on: Mo 23 Mär 2009 00:00:00 CET
                Category: Project Approval
                Priority: 5 - Normal
                  Status: None
                 Privacy: Public
        Percent Complete: 0%
             Assigned to: None
             Open/Closed: Open
         Discussion Lock: Any
                  Effort: 0.00

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Details:

A new project has been registered at Savannah 
This project account will remain inactive until a site admin approves or
discards the registration.


= Registration Administration =

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* Group Administration
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= Registration Details =

* Name: *GNU libunistring*
* System Name:  *libunistring*
* Type: Official GNU software
* License: GNU Lesser General Public License

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==== Description: ====
A library for manipulation of Unicode strings,
and for Unicode aware manipulation of C strings.

Language: C.

Features:
  - Elementary string functions
  - Conversion from/to legacy encodings
  - Formatted output to strings
  - Character names
  - String width when using nonproportional fonts
  - Character classification and properties
  - Word breaks
  - Line breaking algorithm
  - Normalization, composition and decomposition
  - Case folding
  - Regular expression matching



==== Other Software Required: ====
No dependencies on glibc systems.
On other systems: Depends on GNU libiconv (LGPLv2+).



==== Other Comments: ====
The project was "dubbed" as a GNU project by RMS on
2009-03-12.

It is portable, runs as well on glibc systems as well as on other Unix
systems.

No media files included.

You find the API that is already implemented in gnulib:
http://git.savannah.gnu.org/gitweb/?p=gnulib.git;a=tree;f=lib;h=41387243431943bdc60c17e2b3a87e04c5711aaa;hb=f93bd98a9570a4455f16eafc49c6227e5caa5a53
files uni*.h.

A tarball with documentation and packaging does not exist
yet; to be written. It will of course include a copy of
the LGPLv3.



==== Tarball URL: ====
http://www.haible.de/bruno/gnu/libunistring-0.5.tar.gz






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