From: Abel Braaksma <abel(_dot_)online(_at_)xs4all(_dot_)nl>
Isn't it possible to use the excellent IBM ICU libraries for the encodings
from within Gestalt (or Eiffel)? Then you support 500+ encodings in one go.
It's theoretically possible, but I'm not going to do it.
It is there in C and Java and it is open source.
I tried reading the C++ implementation once (when I was writing the Eiffel
Unicode normaliztion routines - Mark Davis advised me to look at it because
ICU has better optimization algorithms than the sample Java code he provides
which both Mike and I have used as the starting point for our support for
NFC, NFKD etc.). I soon gave up - I couldn't see anything but
memory-management code, and I got lost before I could come to the meat of
the algorithms.
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