Show HN: Mojibake – a low-level Unicode library written in C

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I've written Mojibake because I don't like the other Unicode libraries for Unicode support.

It consists of only two amalgamation files: mojibake.h and mojibake.c. I've added all the most important Unicode algorithms, such as normalization, case conversion, segmentation, bidirectional text, collation, confusable, and others.

I regularly test it in these OSes: Linux, macOS, FreeBSD, OpenBSD, NetBSD, and Windows 11.

You can find a WASM demo on that site of all the public API functions and the documentation. If you want to participate, feel free to do it. Any kind of help is welcome. Check the CONTRIBUTING.md and API.md files in the GitHub repository for instructions on how to do it.

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lifthrasiir•about 1 hour ago

How does it compare with utf8proc [1]? I'm aware that Mojibake does a bit more than utf8proc (e.g. bi-di) but that seems marginal to me.

[1] https://juliastrings.github.io/utf8proc/

CharlesW•36 minutes ago

Not to bikeshed, but isn't the word "mojibake" synonymous with "when character encoding breaks"?

digg99•about 2 hours ago

Love the amalgamation approach—the C/C++ ecosystem desperately needs cleaner, lightweight Unicode support without pulling in massive dependencies... thanks for sharing

tjwebbnorfolk•about 1 hour ago

what's performance like compared to python ftfy module?

avadodin•about 1 hour ago

I have come to the conclusion that the only Unicode support needed in C is supporting pointers to char and arrays but lightweight C libraries are always welcome.

adrianN•41 minutes ago

I guess you never have to deal with text if you think that’s enough? What kind of software do you write in C?