What is the m17n library?

• The m17n library is 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.
• The m17n library is used for example by:
• ibus-typing-booster
• ibus-m17n

m17n is an abbreviation of Multilingualization.

News

Nov. 07, 2023
• The m17n database (1.8.5) released.

Sep. 25, 2023
• The m17n database (1.8.4) released.
• The m17n documentation (1.8.4) released.

Aug. 23, 2023
• The m17n library (1.8.4) released.

Jul. 25, 2023
• The m17n library (1.8.3) released.
• The m17n database (1.8.3) released.
• The m17n documentation (1.8.3) released.

May. 09, 2023
• The m17n library (1.8.2) released.
• The m17n database (1.8.2) released.

May. 05, 2023
• The m17n library (1.8.1) released.
• The m17n database (1.8.1) released.

Feb. 10, 2018
• The m17n library (1.8.0) released.
• The m17n database (1.8.0) released.
• The libotf (0.9.16) released.

Jan. 24, 2018
• The libotf (0.9.16) release candidate 2 is uploaded.

Dec. 9, 2017
• The m17n library (1.8.0) release candidate is uploaded.
• The m17n database (1.8.0) release candidate is uploaded.

Dec. 12, 2014
• The m17n library (1.7.0) released.
• The m17n database (1.7.0) released.
• The repository of m17n-lib is moved to git.

Dec. 8, 2013
• The m17n database (1.6.5) released.

Aug. 19, 2013
The repository of m17n-db is moved to git.

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.

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