encode_unicode

UTF-8 and UTF-16 character types, iterators and related methods for char, u8 and u16.

Features

• Utf8Char: A char stored as UTF-8. Can be borrowed as a str or u8 slice.
• Utf16Char: A char stored as UTF-16. Can be borrowed as an u16 slice.
• Conversion methods on char:
  • to and from UTF-8 as [u8; 4] or slice.
  • to and from UTF-16 as (u16, Option<u16>) or slice.
• Iterator adapters for converting betwenn u8s and Utf8Chars or u16s and Utf16Chars.
• Optimized slice-based decoding iterators.
• Precise errors when decoding a char from UTF-8, UTF-16 or u32 fails.
• Utility methods on u8 and u16.

The minimum supported version of Rust is 1.15, older versions might work now but can break with a minor update.

Optional features

• #![no_std]-mode: There are a few differences:
  • Error doesn't exist, but description() is made available as an inherent impl.
  • Extend/FromIterator-implementations for String/Vec<u8>/Vec<u16> are missing.
  • There is no io, so Utf8Iterator and Utf8CharSplitter doesn't implement Read. This feature is enabled by setting default-features=false in Cargo.toml: encode_unicode = {version="0.3.4", default-features=false}.
• Integration with the ascii crate: Convert Utf8Char and Utf16Char to and from ascii::AsciiChar.

License

Licensed under either of

• Apache License, Version 2.0, (LICENSE-APACHE or http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0)
• MIT license (LICENSE-MIT or http://opensource.org/licenses/MIT)

at your option.

Contribution

Unless you explicitly state otherwise, any contribution intentionally submitted for inclusion in the work by you, as defined in the Apache-2.0 license, shall be dual licensed as above, without any additional terms or conditions.

History

The original purpose of this crate was to provide standins for the then unstable encode_utf8() and encode_utf16().
The standins were removed in 0.3 when Rust 1.15 stabilized the encode_
methods, but the other stuff I added, such as iterators like those `encode_utf{8,16}() returned for a while, might still be of use.