Unicorn Library

Unicode library for C++ by Ross Smith

The Unicorn library is intended to make Unicode text manipulation easy for programmers using modern C++. It implements most of the main requirements of the Unicode standard, currently supporting Unicode version 8.0.

The library is divided into the modules listed below; you can import only the ones you need, or import the whole API using #include "unicorn/library.hpp". Everything in the Unicorn library is in namespace Unicorn (or a subordinate namespace inside Unicorn). You can either qualify all calls with the Unicorn:: prefix, or use using namespace Unicorn.

The Unicorn library depends on the utilities and unit testing framework in my Prion library.

• Documentation
  • Introduction to the Unicorn Library
• Core definitions
  • "unicorn/core.hpp" -- Core definitions.
• Character and string encoding
  • "unicorn/character.hpp" -- Unicode characters and their basic properties.
  • "unicorn/utf.hpp" -- The standard UTF encodings, and conversions between them.
  • "unicorn/mbcs.hpp" -- Conversion between UTF and non-Unicode encodings.
• Operations on strings
  • "unicorn/string.hpp" -- A collection of generic string manipulation functions.
  • "unicorn/regex.hpp" -- Unicode regular expressions.
  • "unicorn/normal.hpp" -- The standard Unicode normalization forms.
• Text formatting and parsing
  • "unicorn/segment.hpp" -- Breaking text up into characters, words, sentences, lines, and paragraphs.
  • "unicorn/format.hpp" -- Formatting various kinds of data as Unicode strings.
  • "unicorn/lexer.hpp" -- Breaking text up into tokens by user-defined rules.
  • "unicorn/table.hpp" -- Table layout for fixed-width text.
• Interfacing with the outside world
  • "unicorn/environment.hpp" -- Environment variables.
  • "unicorn/file.hpp" -- Basic operations on the file system.
  • "unicorn/io.hpp" -- File input and output.
  • "unicorn/options.hpp" -- Parsing command line options.