| <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> |
| <!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> |
| <pkgmetadata> |
| <maintainer type="project"> |
| <email>scheme@gentoo.org</email> |
| <name>Gentoo Scheme Project</name> |
| </maintainer> |
| <longdescription lang="en"> |
| 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. |
| </longdescription> |
| </pkgmetadata> |
