Unicode UTF-8 Text Preparation Kernel Functions

This kernel functions enhancement is new in the Developer 1/08 release.

This feature introduces a new set of kernel and user land functions that can be used to perform Unicode Normalizations and Unicode simple-case conversions on UTF-8 text. There are also functions for UTF-8 string comparison and validation with various options.

For more information, see the following man pages:

• u8_strcmp(3C)

• u8_strcmp(9F)

• u8_textprep_str(3C)

• u8_textprep_str(9F)

• u8_validate(3C)

• u8_validate(9F)