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

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by lifthrasiir

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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/

by throwaway2037

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I assume the submitter is also the author. If so, can you share about your motivation to write this library? For example, do you use it professionally or in hobby projects? Did you look at other libraries and think that you could do better? These are honest questions -- no trolling from me. I browsed the code and it looks very clean.
The API documention is so nice! It looks like index.html from https://mojibake.zaerl.com/ uses JavaScript to generate the page. Very cool, indeed.

by digg99

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

by bialamusic

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One .c file and one header .h - That is the way opensource lib should be! I may include it into OnemanBSD

by CharlesW

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

by i18nagentai

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by tjwebbnorfolk

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by avadodin

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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.