Copyright 2015, Arthur N. Klassen; see LICENSE for usage guidelines (BSD 2-clause)

This library started as the first piece of a larger project that has been stalled. It's a simple string library. With the release of version 2.0, I am returning to work on the larger project now, and the results will be available under the ansak-tools branch of this repository. String changes will be merged into the master branch and pushed down to ansak-tools.

ansak-string is mostly about purifying input and performing conversions more simply than other available APIs. If your string (whether it's 7-bit ASCII, UTF-8, UTF-16, UCS-2 or UTF-32/UCS-4) makes it through my APIs (into 7-bit ASCII, UTF-8 etc.), then that's what it is. No more, no less. This includes filtering for publicly assigned Unicode values, currently following Unicode 8.0.

A simple pair of split and join templates, based on character types and using basic_string for their processing are also present.

Available on request, subject to reasonable terms we can agree on. Please contact me via anklassen (at) onepost dot net.

Requests for more conversions from Windows Code Pages and/or ISO/ECMA 8859 encoding standards will be considered individually.

The ultimate goal of these libraries is to support a simple household expense tracking program that I plan to release under an appropriate open source license, using Qt for User Interface, sqlite3 for storage and implemented with the best that C++11/14/7 can supply.

• unicodeLength gives number of UCS-4 codes (regardless of composite/composable points) in a string
• split and join, like python's string and array methods
• all-Unicode-sensitive "tolower". It can operate in "Turkic" mode if you pass in an (optional) constant C-string for a Turkic language's ISO-639 two or three character code. In this mode, I-dot and dotless-i are handled correctly for those languages.

ISO-639 codes for Turkic languages:

• Azerbaizhani: "az", "azb", "aze", "azj"
• Kazakh: "kk", "kaz"
• Tatar: "tt", "tat"
• Turkish "tr", "tur"