Unicode guide/Implementations

This page is my attempt to document my research on Unicode string implementations supported in various languages and software.

Classifications

Here's a quick list of things I'll be classifying:

• Bytestring support
• Internal encoding
• String encoding
• Character type
• OS API encoding/type
• Supports bytes in strings
• Can encode/decode to other encodings
• How breaking by code points, graphene, words, paragraphs, etc is done
• How ordering works
• How upper/lower/folding case works
• How finding works
• How regex works
• How locale tailoring is done

C

- C++ too?

Windows

- narrow APIs

- wide APIs

Python

python 2

python 3

Elixir

- erlang too?

PHP

- narrow APIs

- mbstring