devel/m17n-lib 1.8.0_4 DragonFly

The m17n library provides following facilities to handle multilingual text.

\* M-text: A data structure for a multilingual text.  It is
  basically a string but with attributes called text property, and
  is designed to substitute for the C string.  It is the most
  important object of the m17n library.

\* Functions for creating and processing M-texts.

\* Functions for converting M-texts from/to strings encoded in
  various existing formats.

\* A huge character space, which contains all the Unicode
  characters and more non-Unicode characters.

\* Chartable: A data structure that contains per-character
  information efficiently.

\* Functions for inputting and displaying M-text on a window system.

The documentation is available through devel/m17n-docs.