What is the m17n library?

• The m17n library is a free software.
• The m17n library is for any GNU-Linux/Unix applications.
• The m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of applications.
• The m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named M-text. M-text is a string with attributes called text properties, and designed to substitute for string in C. Text properties carry any information required to input, display and edit the text.
• The m17n library supports functions to handle M-texts.

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.

News

Sep. 28, 2012
• The m17n library (1.6.4) released.
• The m17n database (1.6.4) released.
• The m17n contrib (1.1.14) released.
• The libotf library (0.9.13) released.
This is the last release from AIST. But, the maintenance and development of these packages are continued independently of AIST.

April. 21, 2012
Moved to Savannah.

Oct. 11, 2011
• The m17n database (1.6.3) released.
• The m17n library (1.6.3) released.
• The m17n contrib (1.1.13) released.
Minor bugs fixed and several new input methods added.
Oct. 4, 2010
• The m17n database (1.6.2) released. Bugs fixed.
• The m17n library (1.6.2) released. Bugs fixed.
• The m17n contrib (1.1.12) released.
Apr. 19, 2010
• The m17n database (1.6.1) released. Bugs fixed.
• The m17n library (1.6.1) released. Bugs fixed.
Mar. 31, 2010
• The m17n database in XML format (The m17n database 2.0.0alpha) released.
• The m17n library for XML format database (The m17n library 2.0.0alpha) released.
Mar. 30, 2010
• The m17n library (1.6.0) released.
• The m17n database (1.6.0) released. It contains new font layout tables.
• The m17n contrib (1.1.11) released. It contains several new input methods.
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