Hi,
As reported in a previous mail I found the libunicode library
that provides support for handling unicode strings + conversion from
various charsets. Written in C.
This is a possible alternative to the iconv/wchar functions
doing the same thing in glibc-2.1.
There is also a recently released (June) library called ICU from
IBM (licence is IBM Public Licence, rated Open Source compliant by
www.opensource.org, and a reasonable one IMHO)
http://www.alphaworks.ibm.com/tech/icu/. Written in C++ and provides
Java style interface functions/classes. It also implements the functionalities
of gettext with the ability to handle unicode.
Assuming that htdig ultimately wants to handle various charsets
from HTML/XML documents I'd like your opinion to make the right choice.
The tradeoffs are:
glibc iconv/wchar : requires work to make it a standalone library
libunicode : not 100% stable although quite mature
icu : reimplements gettext which is probably not desirable
I tend to think that icu is the right solution because it seems
much more mature and complete and is written in C++. It does not make use
of templates (thanks god).
Hopefully I will not find a fourth alternative by tomorrow :-)
Cheers,
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