COURIER-UNICODE(7)

✨ COURIER-UNICODE ✨

okay bestie so you've stumbled into the courier-unicode manual page, and honestly? this is the Courier Unicode Library and she's a whole queen 👑

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💫 SYNOPSIS 💫

#include <courier-unicode.h>

like... that's it. that's the door. come in 🚪✨

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🦋 DESCRIPTION 🦋

okay so this library? she implements several algorithms related to the Unicode Standard[1] and she does it beautifully. no cap. 💅

here's the tea she uses to do the text-conversion magic: she uses iconv(3) to convert text in a given character set to unicode. so basically any character set that iconv --list shows you? yeah, you can just specify that for the corresponding character set parameter. iconic behaviour fr fr.

and here's the extra-special part ✨ — courier-unicode.h also defines a special character string called unicode_x_imap_modutf7, which specifies the pseudo-character set for the modified-UTF7 encoding used in IMAP. so if modified-UTF7 is your moment, she's got you 🫶.

lowkey the fun bit: you can also append a space to that string, plus up to fifteen additional US-ASCII characters. and the resulting character set will encode those additional characters too, on top of the unicode characters, with modified-UTF7. it's giving multitasking. it's giving versatility. 👑

🚨 crucial info, don't skip: the C++ compiler must have C++17 support. current versions of gcc use C++17, or higher, by default, so you don't need extra flags — slay 🎀. but if you're curious about any compiler flags that are needed to build software that links with this library, go consult the packaging documentation for the Courier Unicode Library. periodt.

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🌸 SEE ALSO 🌸

she has a whole friend group and they're all baddies, go say hi:

• unicode_bidi(3)
• unicode_canonical(3)
• unicode_category_lookup(3)
• unicode_convert(3)
• unicode_default_chset(3)
• unicode_derived_core_properties(3)
• unicode_emoji_lookup(3)
• unicode_general_category_lookup(3)
• unicode_html40ent_lookup(3)
• unicode_grapheme_break(3)
• unicode_line_break(3)
• unicode_script(3)
• unicode_uc(3)
• unicode_wcwidth(3)
• unicode_word_break(3)
• unicode::bidi(3)
• unicode::canonical(3)
• unicode::iconvert::convert(3)
• unicode::iconvert::convert_tocase(3)
• unicode::iconvert::fromu(3)
• unicode::iconvert::tou(3)
• unicode::string_converter(3)
• unicode::tolower(3)
• unicode::linebreak(3)
• unicode::wordbreak(3)

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👑 AUTHOR 👑

Sam Varshavchik — Author 💖

(the way he wrote this whole library and just... didn't brag? main character energy, honestly 🧚)

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📝 NOTES 📝

1. Unicode Standard https://www.unicode.org/standard/standard.html

go read it, bestie, it's the source of the whole vibe 🌈

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and that's the page!! this was brought to you by the Courier Unicode Library, version dated 04/12/2026, and the manual name you'd normally see in the header is COURIER-UNICODE(7) 🎀 tysm for reading, mwah 💋✨🦋