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Diffstat (limited to 'vietnamese/libviet/pkg-descr')
-rw-r--r-- | vietnamese/libviet/pkg-descr | 10 |
1 files changed, 9 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/vietnamese/libviet/pkg-descr b/vietnamese/libviet/pkg-descr index d9431506e719..3e6c3a321f4b 100644 --- a/vietnamese/libviet/pkg-descr +++ b/vietnamese/libviet/pkg-descr @@ -1 +1,9 @@ -VIQR<->VISCII (RFC 1456) conversion and VISCII ctype-like routines +This port offers VIQR<->VISCII (RFC 1456) conversion and VISCII ctype-like +routines for Vietnamese text processing. Of prime interest is the finite +state machine that reads 7-bit Viet-Net style Vietnamese and produces 8-bit +output. Developers are encouraged to take advantage of these routines for +these reasons: + + - Parsing task is greatly simplified + - Makes one's code easier to port from one character encoding to another + - Ensures a consistent user interface across many software packages |