Re: M17N

[Tom Tromey <tromey@cygnus.com>]

>>>>> "Klaus" == Klaus Schilling <Klaus.Schilling@home.ivm.de> writes:

Klaus> Would it make sense to provide some lib-copylefted portable
Klaus> unicode lib, as part of or separated from GNU libc, so that the
Klaus> many languages that have free implementations don't have to
Klaus> reinvent it each time and bloat on the way, once they start to
Klaus> support unicode?

GNU recode provides part of this.  I believe it should handle all the
coding conversions.  I don't know if the currently released version is
librarified, but I know that the prereleases are.

For the classification side of things (e.g., is this character a
letter?), it is easy to write a script to transform the Unicode data
tables into a format more suitable for use by code.  You can get the
tables from unicode.org.

Tom