[TRE-general] Streamripper using TRE

[Gregory Sharp]

Hi Ville,

> > I settled on TRE because, based on my research, it appears 
> > to be the most portable library that support wide
> characters.  
> 
> I'm interested, what other libraries have you looked at?  I am
> aware
> of quite a few, but it would be nice to hear how you think TRE
> compares against specific libraries :-)

I wish I would have taken better notes, it was several 
months ago.  But here were my goals:

1. Unicode support (wide char prefered, utf8 ok, 
   posix "locale-sensitive" regex insufficient)
2. Windows & unix support
3. C API.  Posix preferred (but there is no 
   posix standard for wide char regex, right?)

And here are the ones I remember looking at.

http://ibm.com/software/globalization/icu 
http://www.boost.org/libs/regex/doc/
http://www.westley.demon.co.uk/src/libutf-2.10.tar.gz
http://crl.nmsu.edu/~mleisher/ure-0.5.tar.gz

I seriously thought about ICU (which could also replace 
iconv), but I thought TRE seemed better.  Why?  Because 
it is lightweight and I can bundle it in the same tarball.
Lots of users get scared off if they have to download 
lots of prerequisites before using an application.

Greg


Greg Sharp
gregsharp at geocities.com


		
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