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diff --git a/dev-libs/libunistring/metadata.xml b/dev-libs/libunistring/metadata.xml new file mode 100644 index 000000000000..da522d18c473 --- /dev/null +++ b/dev-libs/libunistring/metadata.xml @@ -0,0 +1,19 @@ +<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> +<!DOCTYPE pkgmetadata SYSTEM "http://www.gentoo.org/dtd/metadata.dtd"> +<pkgmetadata> +<maintainer type="project"> + <email>scheme@gentoo.org</email> + <name>Gentoo Scheme Project</name> +</maintainer> +<longdescription lang="en"> + Text files are nowadays usually encoded in Unicode, and may consist of very + different scripts – from Latin letters to Chinese Hanzi –, with many kinds + of special characters – accents, right-to-left writing marks, hyphens, Roman + numbers, and much more. But the POSIX platform APIs for text do not contain + adequate functions for dealing with particular properties of many Unicode + characters. In fact, the POSIX APIs for text have several assumptions at + their base which don't hold for Unicode text. + This library provides functions for manipulating Unicode strings and for + manipulating C strings according to the Unicode standard. +</longdescription> +</pkgmetadata> |