Free Implementation of the Unicode Bidirectional Algorithm.
The library implements all of the algorithm as described in the "Unicode
Standard Annex #9, The Bidirectional Algorithm,
http://www.unicode.org/unicode/reports/tr9/". FriBidi is exhautively tested
against Bidi Reference Code, and due to our best knowledge, does not contain
any conformance bugs.
In the API, we were inspired by the document "Bi-Di languages support - BiDi
API proposal" by Franck Portaneri which he wrote as a proposal for adding BiDi
support to Mozilla.
Internally the library uses Unicode entirely. The character property function
was automatically created from the Unicode property list data file,
PropList.txt, available from the Unicode Online Data site. This means that
every Unicode character will be treated in strict accordance with the Unicode
specification. The same is true for the mirroring of characters, which also
works for all the characters listed as mirrorable in the Unicode specification.
changes since 2.20:
Release 2.21
Documentation tweaks.
Don't rely on SvEND(sv) == '\0' as discussed in the perl5-porters
mailing list thread that starts with
http://www.xray.mpe.mpg.de/mailing-lists/perl5-porters/2003-10/msg00258.html
Should now pass test suite even without XS support.
Perl v5.005 or better is now required.
0.31 Wed Oct 16 01:22:34 CEST 2002
- no internal code changes.
- much better documentation, now considered "useful".
- removed the procedural interface.
- fought the wish to perl-5.8'ify and thus simply the code :().
- stress-tested version 0.3 against 70000 data postings since sunday.
0.3 Sun Oct 13 15:12:11 CEST 2002
- updated to uulib 0.5.18. As expected, some but not all of my bugfixes
have went into uulib, sdo the number of differences decreased a bit
again.
- I found out that the library is being sold commercially by Frank
Pilhofer, disregarding the GPL and ignoring the rights of the people
who sent in patches :(
- vastly more useful documentation in the .pm file.
- much smaller distribution filesize ;)
These are experimental modules to handle various Unicode issues.
They were made before perl included native UTF8 support.
The current set of modules are:
Unicode::String - represent strings of Unicode chars
Unicode::CharName - look up character names
Unicode::Map8 - mapping tables towards 8-bit char sets
(the Unicode::Map8 module is distributed separately)
Inspired by FreeBSD "ports".
Fix the PLISTs accordingly.
Also, while at it, remove now obsolete compileall.py calls in post-install
targets and insure that extension.mk is in included before builinlinks of
other Python modules.
Discussed with/ok'ed by drochner@.
in directory conftest during configire run.
So then 'rmdir conftest' fails, then all 'cc -o conftest ...' tests fail,
then ...
So clean up a bit before rmdir'ing conftest hence fix compilation
on said platform.
libiconv. Some packages insist on adding '-liconv' during link
or assumes the existent of it with they found iconv.h.
BUILDLINK_TRANSFORM can handle that.
Put it in in libiconv/buildlink2.mk for systematic coverage and
remove it from package "Makefile".
BTW this fix the build of chat/centericq - and probably others - on
-current.
Okayed by jlam@.
Some highlights of changes since 4.2.3:
* PCRE updated to 4.3, GD to 2.0.15
* improved Apache2 support
* much improved stream & URL wrapper support, output compression support
* added CLI (Command Line Interface) SAPI
* debug_backtrace() backported from ZendEngine2
* faster build system
* huge number of other bug fixes and improvements
Packaging changes:
* 'pcre', 'xml', and 'session' modules folded back into main package -
'pcre' and 'xml' is required by PEAR, and 'session' is just too essential
to be separate
* 'gd' module now uses bundled PHP GD library, which is better integrated
* PHP modules use shared distinfo when possible to ease future PHP updates
* ${PREFIX}/bin/php is now CLI version, ${PREFIX}/libexec/cgi-big/php
remains CGI version
libiconv exists/is needed and whether to link it in). This means packages
can avoid hardcoding LDFLAGS+=-liconv and breaking on -current.
Fixes gnomeicu for -current and 1.6.x
