Hi,
I propose package 'libunistring' for cygwin.
Text files are nowadays usually encoded in Unicode, and may consist of
very different scripts – from Latin letters to Chinese Hanzi –, with
many kinds of special characters – accents, right-to-left writing marks,
hyphens, Roman numbers, and much more. But the POSIX platform APIs for
text do not contain adequate functions for dealing with particular
properties of many Unicode characters. In fact, the POSIX APIs for text
have several assumptions at their base which don't hold for Unicode text.
This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for
manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard.
http://www.gnu.org/s/libunistring/
Libunistring is part of major Linux distributions:
Fedora Linux: https://admin.fedoraproject.org/pkgdb/acls/name/libunistring
Suse Linux:
http://download.opensuse.org/source/distribution/11.4/repo/oss/suse/src/libunistring-0.9.3-2.1.src.rpm
Debian Linux: http://packages.debian.org/search?keywords=libunistring-dev
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.3-1.tar.bz2
http://waterlan.home.xs4all.nl/libunistring/libunistring-0.9.3-1-src.tar.bz2
category: Libs
requires: libgcc1
sdesc: "Library for manipulating Unicode strings."
ldesc: "This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode
strings and for manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard."
regards,
--
Erwin Waterlander
