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LIBUNIBREAK

Overview

Libunibreak is an implementation of Unicode line and word breaking algorithms. It is the successor of liblinebreak. Yongwei Wu wrote the original liblinebreak code according to Unicode Standard Annex 14, and Tom Hacohen and Andreas Röver added the implementation of the word breaking and grapheme breaking algorithms according to Unicode Standard Annex 29. It is designed to be used in a generic text renderer. FBReader is one real-world example, and the Enlightenment Foundation Libraries are another. You may also check out our test code and breaktext for some sample code.

Download

The latest version (4.1) of libunibreak can be download here, and you may want to check What’s New if you are an existing user.

Repository Access

Obviously, you can grab the files from here.

Licence

This library is released under an open-source licence, the zlib/libpng licence. Please check the file LICENCE for details.

Apart from using the algorithm, part of the code is derived from the Unicode Online Data, and the Unicode Terms of Use may apply.

Installation

There are three ways to build the library:

• On *NIX systems supported by the autoconfiscation tools, do the normal

    ./configure
    make
    sudo make install
  

  to build and install both the dynamic and static libraries. In addition, one may

  • type make doc to generate the doxygen documentation; or
  • type make linebreakdata to regenerate linebreakdata.c from LineBreak.txt.
  • type make wordbreakdata to regenerate wordbreakdata.c from WordBreakProperty.txt.

• On systems where GCC and Binutils are supported, one can type

    cd src
    cp -p Makefile.gcc Makefile
    make
  

  to build the static library. In addition, one may

  • type make debug or make release to explicitly generate the debug or release build;
  • type make doc to generate the doxygen documentation; or
  • type make linebreakdata to regenerate linebreakdata.c from LineBreak.txt.
  • type make wordbreakdata to regenerate wordbreakdata.c from WordBreakProperty.txt.

• On Windows, apart from using method 1 (Cygwin/MSYS) and method 2 (MinGW), MSVC can also be used. Type

    cd src
    nmake -f Makefile.msvc
  

  to build the static library. By default the debug release is built. To build the release version

    nmake -f Makefile.msvc CFG="libunibreak - Win32 Release"
  

Documentation

Check the generated document doc/html/linebreak_8h.html, doc/html/wordbreak_8h.html, and doc/html/graphemebreak_8h.html in the downloaded file for the public interfaces exposed to applications.