UnicodeExtras

Installation

julia> Pkg.clone("git://github.com/nolta/UnicodeExtras.git")

Usage

File encoding

julia> using UnicodeExtras

julia> b = encode("Ålborg", "iso-8859-1")
6-element Array{Uint8,1}:
 0xc5
 0x6c
 0x62
 0x6f
 0x72
 0x67

julia> decode(b, "iso-8859-1")
"Ålborg"

Case handling

This package extends Julia's builtin uppercase and lowercase functions, and adds titlecase and foldcase.

julia> uppercase("testingß")
"TESTINGß"

julia> using UnicodeExtras

julia> uppercase("testingß")
"TESTINGSS"

julia> set_locale("tr")  # set locale to Turkish
"tr"

julia> uppercase("testingß")
"TESTİNGSS"

Note that "ß" gets converted to "SS" after UnicodeExtras is loaded, and "i" gets converted to "İ" (dotted capital I) after the locale is set to Turkish.

UnicodeText

In julia, a string is conceptually an array of unicode code points. While well defined, this occasionally causes confusion because a single code point doesn't necessarily correspond to what people perceive as a single "character".

Take the following example:

julia> n1 = "noe\u0308l"
"noël"

julia> length(s)
5

Here, the ë "character" here consists of two code points: 'e' & '\u0308', and so the length of the string is 5, not 4.

julia> noel1 = UnicodeText("noe\u0308l")
"noël"

julia> noel2 = UnicodeText("noël")
"noël"

julia> noel1.data
5-element Array{Uint16,1}:
 0x006e
 0x006f
 0x0065
 0x0308
 0x006c

julia> noel2.data
4-element Array{Uint16,1}:
 0x006e
 0x006f
 0x00eb
 0x006c

julia> noel1 == noel2
true

julia> length(noel1) == 4 == length(noel2)
true

julia> noel1[1:3]
"noë"

UnicodeText comparisons are locale sensitive:

julia> set_locale("de")  # german
"de"

julia> UnicodeText("Köpfe") < UnicodeText("Kypper")
true

julia> set_locale("sv")  # swedish
"sv"

julia> UnicodeText("Köpfe") < UnicodeText("Kypper")
false