minimal_UTF8

Minimal UTF-8 support

Public-domain library with small set of functions to manipulate UTF-8 encoded text.

Features

• Test whether a sequence of bytes is a valid UTF-8 character
• Represent UTF-8 characters as a struct vector
• Convert from an UTF-8 character to a 32-bit Unicode Codepoint
• Convert from a 32-bit Unicode Codepoint to an UTF-8 character
• Function to calculate the required space to convert a C string into an UTF-8 vector
• Function to calculate the required space to convert an UTF-8 vector into a C string
• Convert from a C string to an UTF-8 vector
• Convert from an UTF-8 vector to a C string
• Function to advance reading one UTF-8 character at a time
• Function to send an UTF-8 character to file descriptor
• Function to send an UTF-8 vector to file descriptor
• Function to search an UTF-8 character in a vector
• Function to search a sequence of characters in a vector

Goals and priorities

• Be helpful
• Be correct
• Be easy to reuse
• Facilitate text manipulation

Non-goals

• Implement large functions
• Be the fastest code available or vectorized

Installation

For using this library at your project, you can:

• add utf8.[ch] files directly into your project (this library is public domain software);
• load libminiutf8.so dynamically at runtime;
• compile libminiutf8.a or utf8.o into your native executables.

Code examples

Coming soon.

Using, editing and notes

Each function has a descriptive commentary in the file utf8.h.

I use Leo Editor as my IDE.

This software is versioned under the monotonic versioning method. For more information see The Monotonic Versioning Manifesto