utfcpp
UTF-8 with C++ in a Portable Way (by nemtrif)
zigstr
Zigstr is a UTF-8 string type for Zig programs. (by jecolon)
utfcpp | zigstr | |
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3 | 3 | |
1,419 | 108 | |
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7.3 | 6.7 | |
4 months ago | 7 months ago | |
C++ | Zig | |
Boost Software License 1.0 | MIT License |
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Stars - the number of stars that a project has on GitHub. Growth - month over month growth in stars.
Activity is a relative number indicating how actively a project is being developed. Recent commits have higher weight than older ones.
For example, an activity of 9.0 indicates that a project is amongst the top 10% of the most actively developed projects that we are tracking.
utfcpp
Posts with mentions or reviews of utfcpp.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2022-03-17.
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Current utf8 support options.
std::string is simply a string of bytes, so can already contain utf-8 encoded text. The only problem is when you want to interact with OS (Windows) API and other library APIs that don't expect utf-8 and when you need to count number of characters etc. For that you can look into existing libraries, e.g. the official Unicode ICU or whatever you can find that others have made, e.g.: https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp
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How to cout a non-ASCII character within a non-ASCII string
Suffice it to say, this is a mess. However, there are libraries that make this easier.
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Maintain It with Zig
> I've always tried as much as possible to treat strings as just opaque data and never look into them, which tends to work well, but in some domains you really need to look at and massage the characters/codepoints/grapheme clusters, and the lack of a first-citizen UTF-8-aware string type is, I think, a bit unfortunate in this day and age.
You don't need a UTF-8 type for that, you just need routines that handle UTF-8 strings, like utfcpp (https://github.com/nemtrif/utfcpp).
zigstr
Posts with mentions or reviews of zigstr.
We have used some of these posts to build our list of alternatives
and similar projects. The last one was on 2021-12-27.
- A Review of the Zig Programming Language (Using Advent of Code 2021)
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Resizable string in Zig?
For Unicode text processing you can take a look at Ziglyph https://github.com/jecolon/ziglyph and for a sample UTF-8 string structure, Zigstr https://github.com/jecolon/zigstr . (bias alert: I'm the author of both. :^D )
- Maintain It with Zig
What are some alternatives?
When comparing utfcpp and zigstr you can also consider the following projects:
icu - The home of the ICU project source code.
mach - zig game engine & graphics toolkit
dstep - A tool for converting C and Objective-C headers to D modules
ziglyph - Unicode text processing for the Zig programming language.
arocc - A C compiler written in Zig.
RIIR - why not Rewrite It In Rust
cc-rs - Rust library for build scripts to compile C/C++ code into a Rust library
wtfiles - Files that make you go WTF!
ohmygentool - LLVM/Clang based bindings generator for D language