$Header: /cvsroot/unac/unac/README,v 1.3 2001/07/19 08:22:12 loic Exp $ What is it ? ------------ unac is a C library and command that removes accents from a string. For instance the string été will become ete. It provides a command line interface that removes accents from a input flow or a string given in argument (unaccent command). In the library function and the command, the charset of the input is specified as an argument. The input is converted to UTF-16 using iconv(3), accents are stripped and the result is converted back to the original charset. The iconv --list command on GNU/Linux will show all charset supported. Where is the documentation ? ---------------------------- The manual page of the unaccent command : man unaccent. The manual page of the unac library : man unac. How to install it ? ------------------- For OS that are not GNU/Linux we recommend to use the iconv library provided by Bruno Haible <haible@clisp.cons.org> at ftp://ftp.ilog.fr/pub/Users/haible/gnu/libiconv-1.3.tar.gz. Under Solaris-2.6 the native iconv library is not able to convert from ISO-8859-1 to UTF-16 directly, it must do ISO-8859-1 -> UTF-8 -> UTF-16 and vice versa. ./configure [--with-iconv=/my/local] make all make check make install How to link with unac ? ------------------------- Assuming you've installed unac in the /usr/local directory use something similar to the following: In the sources: ... #include <unac.h> ... On the command line: cc -I/usr/local/include -o prog prog.cc -L/usr/local/lib -lunac Where can I download it ? ------------------------- The main distribution site is http://www.senga.org/unac/. Loic Dachary loic@senga.org http://www.senga.org/
