V3.2.0

What's Changed

• Dual error handling strategies: exceptions or error codes
• Corrected case conversion functions
• CMake config fixes to make it more reusable in other projects by @emanspeaks in #5
• Add macro to disable replacing Windows API calls with UTF8 version by @lockieluke in #6

New Contributors

• @emanspeaks made their first contribution in #5
• @lockieluke made their first contribution in #6

Note: I will no longer include pre-built binaries with the release.

Full Changelog: V3.1.0...V3.2.0

V3.1.0

• Added overloads that take char32_t argument to all character classification functions (is... functions)
• isspace function recognizes all characters in Unicode Space_Separator category.
• More test cases. Sample trim function
• Fixed some bugs.

V3.0.0

• Changed signature of next functions. Return REPLACEMENT_CHARACTER at end or when finding an invalid encoding.
• Added prev functions for going backwards in a UTF-8 string
• some code cleanup

V2.2.0

Summary of changes:

• Renamed in-place tolower and toupper to utf8::make_lower and utf8::make_upper (thanks Fraser Ross).
• Changed argument order for utf8::LoadString function.
• Added utf8::GetModuleFileName function
• Added utf8::system function.

This will probably be the last release with the version 2 API.

V2.1.0

Summary of changes:

• Added function wrappers for most registry functions.

V2.0.0

Summary of changes:

• changed signature of next() functions
• renamed valid() functions to valid_str()
• added is_valid() functions for checking individual code points.
• throw exceptions on invalid encodings

Includes precompiled binaries for Visual Studio 2022.

v1.1.0

Includes precompiled library versions for VisualStudio 2019

Summary of Changes

• Switched to semantic versioning. Previous release should be considered v1.0.0
• Added functions: icompare, symlink
• narrow function for char32_t
• INI files have line endings

Fall 2020

Pre-compiled libraries for VisualStudio 2019.

These are release version of the library.