Are there free libraries for dealing with Unicode available?
• Ulrich Drepper’s GNU C library glibc has featured since version 2.2 full multi-byte locale support for UTF-8, an ISO ISO 14651 sorting order algorithm, and it can recode into many other encodings. All current Linux distributions come with glibc 2.2 or newer, so you definitely should upgrade now if you are still using an earlier Linux C library. • The International Components for Unicode (ICU) (formerly IBM Classes for Unicode) have become what is probably the most powerful cross-platform standard library for more advanced Unicode character processing functions. • X.Net’s xIUA is a package designed to retrofit existing code for ICU support by providing locale management so that users do not have to modify internal calling interfaces to pass locale parameters. It uses more familiar APIs, for example to collate you use xiua_strcoll, and is thread safe. • Mark Leisher’s UCData Unicode character property and bidi library as well as his wchar_t support test code. • Bruno Haible’s libiconv
• Ulrich Drepper’s GNU C library glibc has featured since version 2.2 full multi-byte locale support for UTF-8, a Unicode sorting order algorithm, and it can recode into many other encodings. All current Linux distributions come with glibc 2.2 or newer, so you definitely should upgrade now if you are still using an earlier Linux C library. • The International Components for Unicode (ICU) (formerly IBM Classes for Unicode) have become what is probably the most powerful cross-platform standard library for more advanced Unicode character processing functions. • X.Net’s xIUA is a package designed to retrofit existing code for ICU support by providing locale management so that users do not have to modify internal calling interfaces to pass locale parameters. It uses more familiar APIs, for example to collate you use xiua_strcoll, and is thread safe. • Mark Leisher’s UCData Unicode character property and bidi library as well as his wchar_t support test code. • Bruno Haible’s libiconv charact
