utf8proc/NEWS.md

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utf8proc release history

Version 1.1.6

2013-11-27:

• PostgreSQL 9.2 and 9.3 compatibility (lowercase c language name)

Version 1.1.5

2009-08-20:

• Use RSTRING_PTR() and RSTRING_LEN() instead of RSTRING()->ptr and RSTRING()->len for ruby1.9 compatibility (and #define them, if not existent)

2009-10-02:

• Patches for compatibility with Microsoft Visual Studio

2009-10-08:

• Fixes to make utf8proc usable in C++ programs

2009-10-16:

Version 1.1.4

2009-06-14:

• replaced C++ style comments for compatibility reasons
• added typecasts to suppress compiler warnings
• removed redundant source files for ruby-gemfile generation

2009-08-19:

• Changed copyright notice for Public Software Group e. V.
• Minor changes in the README file

Version 1.1.3

2008-10-04:

• Added a function utf8proc_version returning a string containing the version number of the library.
• Included a target libutf8proc.dylib for MacOSX.

2009-05-01:

• PostgreSQL 8.3 compatibility (use of SET_VARSIZE macro)

Version 1.1.2

2007-07-25:

• Fixed a serious bug in the data file generator, which caused characters being treated incorrectly, when stripping default ignorable characters or calculating grapheme cluster boundaries.

Version 1.1.1

2007-06-25:

• Added a new PostgreSQL function unistrip, which behaves like unifold, but also removes all character marks (e.g. accents).

2007-07-22:

• Changed license from BSD to MIT style.
• Added a new function utf8proc_codepoint_valid to the C library.
• Changed compiler flags in Makefile from -g -O0 to -O2
• The ruby script, which was used to build the utf8proc_data.c file, is now included in the distribution.

Version 1.0.3

2007-03-16:

• Fixed a bug in the ruby library, which caused an error, when splitting an empty string at grapheme cluster boundaries (method String#utf8chars).

Version 1.0.2

2006-09-21:

• included a check in Integer#utf8, which raises an exception, if the given code-point is invalid because of being too high (this was missing yet)

2006-12-26:

• added support for PostgreSQL version 8.2

Version 1.0.1

2006-09-20:

• included a gem file for the ruby version of the library

Release of version 1.0.1

Version 1.0

2006-09-17:

• added the LUMP option, which lumps certain characters together (see lump.md) (also used for the PostgreSQL unifold function)
• added the STRIPMARK option, which strips marking characters (or marks of composed characters)
• deprecated ruby method String#char_ary in favour of String#utf8chars

Version 0.3

2006-07-18:

• changed normalization from NFC to NFKC for postgresql unifold function

2006-08-04:

• added support to mark the beginning of a grapheme cluster with 0xFF (option: CHARBOUND)
• added the ruby method String#chars, which is returning an array of UTF-8 encoded grapheme clusters
• added NLF2LF transformation in postgresql unifold function
• added the DECOMPOSE option, if you neither use COMPOSE or DECOMPOSE, no normalization will be performed (different from previous versions)
• using integer constants rather than C-strings for character properties
• fixed (hopefully) a problem with the ruby library on Mac OS X, which occurred when compiler optimization was switched on

Version 0.2

2006-06-05:

• changed behaviour of PostgreSQL function to return NULL in case of invalid input, rather than raising an exceptional condition
• improved efficiency of PostgreSQL function (no transformation to C string is done)

2006-06-20:

• added -fpic compiler flag in Makefile
• fixed bug in the C code for the ruby library (usage of non-existent function)

Version 0.1

2006-06-02: initial release of version 0.1