Hi José, Yesterday, you identified a set of functions from GNU libunistring that would be useful to use in GNU poke. Since you will need only a few such functions, which sums up to little code and only one big table, you can take the respective modules from gnulib - a regular use of gnulib-tool. All the source code of libunistring is in gnulib, distributed across ca. 350 modules.
The list of modules is as follows. The relation between function name and module name is obvious. unitypes unistr/base unistr/u8-check unistr/u8-chr unistr/u8-cmp unistr/u8-cmp2 unistr/u8-cpy unistr/u8-cpy-alloc unistr/u8-endswith unistr/u8-mblen unistr/u8-mbsnlen unistr/u8-mbtouc unistr/u8-mbtoucr unistr/u8-mbtouc-unsafe unistr/u8-move unistr/u8-next unistr/u8-prev unistr/u8-set unistr/u8-startswith unistr/u8-stpcpy unistr/u8-stpncpy unistr/u8-strcat unistr/u8-strchr unistr/u8-strcmp unistr/u8-strcoll unistr/u8-strcpy unistr/u8-strcspn unistr/u8-strdup unistr/u8-strlen unistr/u8-strmblen unistr/u8-strmbtouc unistr/u8-strncat unistr/u8-strncmp unistr/u8-strncpy unistr/u8-strnlen unistr/u8-strpbrk unistr/u8-strrchr unistr/u8-strspn unistr/u8-strstr unistr/u8-strtok unistr/u8-to-u16 unistr/u8-to-u32 unistr/u8-uctomb unistr/u16-check unistr/u16-chr unistr/u16-cmp unistr/u16-cmp2 unistr/u16-cpy unistr/u16-cpy-alloc unistr/u16-endswith unistr/u16-mblen unistr/u16-mbsnlen unistr/u16-mbtouc unistr/u16-mbtoucr unistr/u16-mbtouc-unsafe unistr/u16-move unistr/u16-next unistr/u16-prev unistr/u16-set unistr/u16-startswith unistr/u16-stpcpy unistr/u16-stpncpy unistr/u16-strcat unistr/u16-strchr unistr/u16-strcmp unistr/u16-strcoll unistr/u16-strcpy unistr/u16-strcspn unistr/u16-strdup unistr/u16-strlen unistr/u16-strmblen unistr/u16-strmbtouc unistr/u16-strncat unistr/u16-strncmp unistr/u16-strncpy unistr/u16-strnlen unistr/u16-strpbrk unistr/u16-strrchr unistr/u16-strspn unistr/u16-strstr unistr/u16-strtok unistr/u16-to-u32 unistr/u16-to-u8 unistr/u16-uctomb unistr/u32-check unistr/u32-chr unistr/u32-cmp unistr/u32-cmp2 unistr/u32-cpy unistr/u32-cpy-alloc unistr/u32-endswith unistr/u32-mblen unistr/u32-mbsnlen unistr/u32-mbtouc unistr/u32-mbtoucr unistr/u32-mbtouc-unsafe unistr/u32-move unistr/u32-next unistr/u32-prev unistr/u32-set unistr/u32-startswith unistr/u32-stpcpy unistr/u32-stpncpy unistr/u32-strcat unistr/u32-strchr unistr/u32-strcmp unistr/u32-strcoll unistr/u32-strcpy unistr/u32-strcspn unistr/u32-strdup unistr/u32-strlen unistr/u32-strmblen unistr/u32-strmbtouc unistr/u32-strncat unistr/u32-strncmp unistr/u32-strncpy unistr/u32-strnlen unistr/u32-strpbrk unistr/u32-strrchr unistr/u32-strspn unistr/u32-strstr unistr/u32-strtok unistr/u32-to-u16 unistr/u32-to-u8 unistr/u32-uctomb uniconv/base uniconv/u8-conv-from-enc uniconv/u8-conv-to-enc uniconv/u8-strconv-from-enc uniconv/u8-strconv-from-locale uniconv/u8-strconv-to-enc uniconv/u8-strconv-to-locale uniconv/u16-conv-from-enc uniconv/u16-conv-to-enc uniconv/u16-strconv-from-enc uniconv/u16-strconv-from-locale uniconv/u16-strconv-to-enc uniconv/u16-strconv-to-locale uniconv/u32-conv-from-enc uniconv/u32-conv-to-enc uniconv/u32-strconv-from-enc uniconv/u32-strconv-from-locale uniconv/u32-strconv-to-enc uniconv/u32-strconv-to-locale unistdio/base unistdio/u8-asnprintf unistdio/u8-asprintf unistdio/u8-snprintf unistdio/u8-sprintf unistdio/u8-u8-asnprintf unistdio/u8-u8-asprintf unistdio/u8-u8-snprintf unistdio/u8-u8-sprintf unistdio/u8-u8-vasnprintf unistdio/u8-u8-vasprintf unistdio/u8-u8-vsnprintf unistdio/u8-u8-vsprintf unistdio/u8-vasnprintf unistdio/u8-vasprintf unistdio/u8-vsnprintf unistdio/u8-vsprintf unistdio/u16-asnprintf unistdio/u16-asprintf unistdio/u16-snprintf unistdio/u16-sprintf unistdio/u16-u16-asnprintf unistdio/u16-u16-asprintf unistdio/u16-u16-snprintf unistdio/u16-u16-sprintf unistdio/u16-u16-vasnprintf unistdio/u16-u16-vasprintf unistdio/u16-u16-vsnprintf unistdio/u16-u16-vsprintf unistdio/u16-vasnprintf unistdio/u16-vasprintf unistdio/u16-vsnprintf unistdio/u16-vsprintf unistdio/u32-asnprintf unistdio/u32-asprintf unistdio/u32-snprintf unistdio/u32-sprintf unistdio/u32-u32-asnprintf unistdio/u32-u32-asprintf unistdio/u32-u32-snprintf unistdio/u32-u32-sprintf unistdio/u32-u32-vasnprintf unistdio/u32-u32-vasprintf unistdio/u32-u32-vsnprintf unistdio/u32-u32-vsprintf unistdio/u32-vasnprintf unistdio/u32-vasprintf unistdio/u32-vsnprintf unistdio/u32-vsprintf unistdio/ulc-asnprintf unistdio/ulc-asprintf unistdio/ulc-fprintf unistdio/ulc-snprintf unistdio/ulc-sprintf unistdio/ulc-vasnprintf unistdio/ulc-vasprintf unistdio/ulc-vfprintf unistdio/ulc-vsnprintf unistdio/ulc-vsprintf uniname/base uniname/uniname unictype/base unictype/bidiclass-all unictype/block-all unictype/category-all unictype/combining-class-all unictype/ctype-alnum unictype/ctype-alpha unictype/ctype-blank unictype/ctype-cntrl unictype/ctype-digit unictype/ctype-graph unictype/ctype-lower unictype/ctype-print unictype/ctype-punct unictype/ctype-space unictype/ctype-upper unictype/ctype-xdigit unictype/decimal-digit unictype/digit unictype/joininggroup-all unictype/joiningtype-all unictype/mirror unictype/numeric unictype/property-all unictype/scripts-all unictype/syntax-c-ident unictype/syntax-c-whitespace unictype/syntax-java-ident unictype/syntax-java-whitespace uniwidth/base uniwidth/u8-strwidth uniwidth/u8-width uniwidth/u16-strwidth uniwidth/u16-width uniwidth/u32-strwidth uniwidth/u32-width uniwidth/width unigbrk/base unigbrk/u8-grapheme-breaks unigbrk/u8-grapheme-next unigbrk/u8-grapheme-prev unigbrk/u16-grapheme-breaks unigbrk/u16-grapheme-next unigbrk/u16-grapheme-prev unigbrk/u32-grapheme-breaks unigbrk/u32-grapheme-next unigbrk/u32-grapheme-prev unigbrk/uc-gbrk-prop unigbrk/uc-is-grapheme-break unigbrk/ulc-grapheme-breaks unigbrk/uc-grapheme-breaks uniwbrk/base uniwbrk/u8-wordbreaks uniwbrk/u16-wordbreaks uniwbrk/u32-wordbreaks uniwbrk/ulc-wordbreaks uniwbrk/wordbreak-property unilbrk/base unilbrk/u8-possible-linebreaks unilbrk/u8-width-linebreaks unilbrk/u16-possible-linebreaks unilbrk/u16-width-linebreaks unilbrk/u32-possible-linebreaks unilbrk/u32-width-linebreaks unilbrk/ulc-possible-linebreaks unilbrk/ulc-width-linebreaks uninorm/base uninorm/canonical-decomposition uninorm/composition uninorm/decomposition uninorm/filter uninorm/nfc uninorm/nfd uninorm/nfkc uninorm/nfkd uninorm/u8-normalize uninorm/u8-normcmp uninorm/u8-normcoll uninorm/u8-normxfrm uninorm/u16-normalize uninorm/u16-normcmp uninorm/u16-normcoll uninorm/u16-normxfrm uninorm/u32-normalize uninorm/u32-normcmp uninorm/u32-normcoll uninorm/u32-normxfrm unicase/base unicase/empty-prefix-context unicase/empty-suffix-context unicase/locale-language unicase/tolower unicase/totitle unicase/toupper unicase/u8-casecmp unicase/u8-casecoll unicase/u8-casefold unicase/u8-casexfrm unicase/u8-ct-casefold unicase/u8-ct-tolower unicase/u8-ct-totitle unicase/u8-ct-toupper unicase/u8-is-cased unicase/u8-is-casefolded unicase/u8-is-lowercase unicase/u8-is-titlecase unicase/u8-is-uppercase unicase/u8-prefix-context unicase/u8-suffix-context unicase/u8-tolower unicase/u8-totitle unicase/u8-toupper unicase/u16-casecmp unicase/u16-casecoll unicase/u16-casefold unicase/u16-casexfrm unicase/u16-ct-casefold unicase/u16-ct-tolower unicase/u16-ct-totitle unicase/u16-ct-toupper unicase/u16-is-cased unicase/u16-is-casefolded unicase/u16-is-lowercase 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