#### Unicode

# Unicode support

GLib has support for various aspects of Unicode, and provides a number of APIs for dealing with Unicode characters and strings.

There are analogues of the traditional `ctype.h` character classification and case conversion functions, UTF-8 analogues of some string utility functions, functions to perform normalization, case conversion and collation on UTF-8 strings and finally functions to convert between the UTF-8, UTF-16 and UCS-4 encodings of Unicode.

The implementations of the Unicode functions in GLib are based on the Unicode Character Data tables, which are available from www.unicode.org.

- Unicode 4.0 was added in GLib 2.8
- Unicode 4.1 was added in GLib 2.10
- Unicode 5.0 was added in GLib 2.12
- Unicode 5.1 was added in GLib 2.16.3
- Unicode 6.0 was added in GLib 2.30
- Unicode 6.1 was added in GLib 2.32
- Unicode 6.2 was added in GLib 2.36
- Unicode 6.3 was added in GLib 2.40
- Unicode 7.0 was added in GLib 2.42
- Unicode 8.0 was added in GLib 2.48
- Unicode 9.0 was added in GLib 2.50.1
- Unicode 10.0 was added in GLib 2.54
- Unicode 11.10 was added in GLib 2.58
- Unicode 12.0 was added in GLib 2.62
- Unicode 12.1 was added in GLib 2.62
- Unicode 13.0 was added in GLib 2.66
- Unicode 14.0 was added in GLib 2.71
- Unicode 15.0 was added in GLib 2.76