nemtrif/utfcpp

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1987 stars · 240 forks observed · 2026-08-28

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

A small, header-only C++ library for handling UTF-8 encoded strings in a portable way, compatible back to C++98. It provides STL iterator-based utilities for validating, converting, and manipulating UTF-8 text, including conversion to and from UTF-16.

Use cases

• validate that a string or file contains valid UTF-8 text
• convert UTF-8 strings to UTF-16 and back
• handle Unicode text in C++98 or legacy C++ codebases
• iterate over UTF-8 encoded characters with STL-style iterators
• add portable Unicode support to a cross-platform C++ project

When to choose

• you need lightweight, dependency-free UTF-8 handling in C++
• your codebase must stay compatible with C++98/03
• you want an STL iterator-friendly Unicode API
• you prefer a header-only library that is trivial to deploy

When to avoid

• you need full Unicode normalization, collation, or locale-aware processing
• your project already uses ICU or another comprehensive Unicode library
• you need CMake-based package installation as a supported workflow

Facets

library · maturity stable

internationalization parser serialization developer-tools text-editors cross-platform cpp cross-platform utf-8 utf-16 unicode header-only stl-iterators cpp98

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