June 2011
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Using OS X's Built-in ICU Library in Your Own...
Unicode string is usually not difficult to handle1. The tricky part comes when you need to have knowledge of Unicode on things like:
Turning strings like “Café” to upper case or lower case (the toupper() or tolower() in Standard C Library won’t work)
Stripping all punctuation symbols. This is not as easy as it seems. How do you also strip various European quotation marks as...