Unicode Manipulation @gtkdoc glib glib-Unicode-Manipulation
UTF-8 handling, and conversion to UCS-4
If you read an UTF-8 string from somewhere, you should validate it, or risk random segmentation faults
val from_unichar : unichar -> stringfrom_unichar 0xiii converts a code point iii (usually in hexadecimal form) into a string containing the UTF-8 encoded character 0xiii. See unicode.org for charmaps. Does not check that the given code point is a valid unicode point.
val from_unistring : unistring -> stringto_unichar_validated decodes an UTF-8 encoded code point and checks for incomplete characters, invalid characters and overlong encodings.
Convert.Error if invalid
to_unichar decodes an UTF-8 encoded code point. Result is undefined if pos does not point to a valid UTF-8 encoded character.
val to_unistring : string -> unistringto_unistring decodes an UTF-8 encoded string into an array of unichar. The string must be valid.
val first_char : string -> unicharval normalize : string -> normalize_mode -> string