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sheredom/utf8.h

📚 single header utf8 string functions for C and C++ observed · 2026-08-28

github.com/sheredom/utf8.h · C++ · Unlicense (permissive) observed · 2026-08-28

Health v2 · maintenance only

83/100

  • Activity 99
  • Release rhythm 53
  • Longevity 100
How is this computed?

round(0.45*activity + 0.35*rhythm + 0.20*longevity); archived -> min(score, 10) — computed 2026-09-03. Adoption (stars, forks) is never an input.

  • gap_med: n/a
  • age_days: 4075
  • days_rel: 103
  • days_push: 7
  • n_releases_24m: 1

Full methodology

Adoption not part of the score

1979 stars · 141 forks observed · 2026-08-28

What it is AI-extracted, prompt v1, taxonomy v1, 2026-08-30, confidence not recorded

A single-header C and C++ library providing UTF-8 string manipulation functions mirroring the standard string.h API. It offers utf8-prefixed equivalents of str* functions plus codepoint handling and validation utilities.

Use cases

  • handle utf8 strings in c or c++
  • count codepoints in a utf8 string
  • validate utf8 string data
  • portable string functions across linux macos windows
  • iterate over unicode codepoints in a string
  • drop-in utf8 alternative to string.h

When to choose

  • you need lightweight UTF-8 string handling in C/C++ without dependencies
  • you want an API familiar from string.h
  • you need a single-header, easy-to-vendor solution

When to avoid

  • you need full Unicode normalization, case folding, or locale-aware collation
  • you need wide-character or UTF-16/UTF-32 support
  • you need case-insensitive functions marked incomplete

Facets

library · maturity stable

parser internationalization developer-tools programming-languages developer-tools windows cpp c cross-platform header-only utf8 string-processing unicode single-header localization linux macos

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