libu8 is a portability and utility library written in modern C for Unix-based platforms. libu8 is licensed under the LGPL and the GPL version 2. You can find the source to libu8 on github.
libu8 is a portability and utility library written in modern C for Unix-based platforms. libu8 is licensed under the LGPL (V2.1) and GPL (V2) you can find the source on github. Detailed robodocs are available (generated by Doxygen).
libu8 provides:
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string utilities for portably working with UTF-8 encodings and converting to and from a wide variety of other text encodings;
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stream-based text I/O using UTF-8 internally but supporting automatic conversion to and from other encodings;
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an extensible printf (
u8_printf) function including output to strings; -
extensible and customizable logging functions (using
u8_printf); -
wrappers for time-related functions allowing fine-grained times and specification of arbitrary time zones;
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an exception handling library using
setjmp/longjmpwith unwinds and dynamic error catching; -
signal handlers for turning signals into exceptions;
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a client networking library for socket io, connection pools, and simple hostname lookup;
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a server networking library for lightweight multi-threaded high-performance server implementation;
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various hash and digest functions, including MD5, Google's cityhash, and various SHAx functions;
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cryptographic function wrappers using local libraries;
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a variety of file or URI path manipulation functions;
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a wrapper for rusage() resource system calls;
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wrappers for accessing file and directory contents and metadata;
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support for lookup up and interpretation of named character entities;
libu8 is especially intended for software which uses UTF-8 internally but may interact with applications and services employing different character encodings. However, it has grown to provide a variety of other portable functions.
