Inquiring about the status of the proposed UNICODE library

[Alice Osako]

    As background, I am writing a
      minimal JSON parser and generator library for Modula-2 as part of
      a larger project (a Language Server Protocol implementation for
      Modula-2, which is itself in service of developing yet another
      unrelated project in Modula-2), and while I would be satisfied in
      the short run with a parser which is limited to ASCII, I would
      strongly prefer to properly support the JSON standard as given in
      RFC 8259. 
    
      To this end, I was wondering if there was a UNICODE library
      available for GNU Modula-2 at this time, so I checked the archives
      of this mailing list and came across a post by Chris Lilley from
      October 2010. While the posted message did include the module and
      definition files for the library, the message itself made it clear
      that the library was still in early development at that time.
      
      I was wondering if there had been any subsequent development on
      this library, whether it was released at any point, and what its
      availability was. Conversely, if there were any other UTF-8
      capable Modula-2 libraries I would be interested in hearing about
      them.
      
      I have gone through the official documentation for GNU Modula-2,
      as well as checked the GNU software repositories, and found
      nothing that fit my needs, though it is possible I overlooked
      something.
      
      I will confess that I am not tremendously fluent in Modula-2 yet,
      nor am I conversant with the UNICODE standards. I do not see
      trying to implement a UNICODE library myself as a viable option,
      at least not without a great deal of study on the problem.
      
      Thank you for your time.