Fast and portable character string processing in R (with the Unicode ICU)
[BUILD TIME] [BUGFIX] #501: Fixed failing build on 32-bit Windows
(Windows API ResolveLocaleName function not available).
[BUILD TIME] [BUGFIX] #502: PKG_CPPFLAGS are now considered
before other CPPFLAGS (the same with other flag types) in
the configure script to make it compatible with what happens in Makevars.
[BUILD TIME] [BUGFIX] Support for ICU's doubleconversion on Loongarch
has been restored (see #463).
[GENERAL] ICU bundle updated to version 74.1 (Unicode 15.1, CLDR 44).
[BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY] [BUILD TIME] Support for Solaris has now been dropped. The package is no longer shipped with the very outdated ICU55 bundle. A compiler supporting at least C++11 as well as ICU >= 61 are now required.
[BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY] #469: Missing date-time fields in
stri_datetime_parse and stri_datetime_create now default to today's
midnight local time.
[BACKWARD INCOMPATIBILITY] Removed the long-deprecated and defunct
fallback_encoding parameter of stri_read_lines and the ellipsis
parameter of stri_opts_collator, stri_opts_regex, stri_opts_fixed,
and stri_opts_regex.
[BUILD TIME] As per the suggestion of Prof. Brian Ripley, icudt74l
(ICU data - little endian) is now included in the source tarball (compressed
with xz to save space). This allows for building stringi on systems with
no internet access.
[NEW FEATURE] #476: In break iterator-, date-time-, and collator-based
operations (e.g., stri_sort), a warning is emitted when the root ICU
resource bundle is returned when using an explicitly requested locale.
This might happen when we pass an 'unknown' locale argument to these
functions. Note that when relying on the default locale=NULL argument,
no warning is emitted. In such a case, checking
if the default locale as returned by stri_enc_get is amongst
those listed in stri_enc_list is recommended.
[NEW FEATURE] The C locale identifier now resolves to en_US_POSIX.
[BUGFIX] #469: stri_datetime_parse did not reset the Calendar
object when parsing multiple dates.
[BUGFIX] #487: Some functions did not accept ASCII strings longer than 858993457 characters on input.
[BUGFIX] Fixed some potential problems reported by rchk.
[NOTE] [BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE IF ICU >= 72]
If building against ICU >= 72,
note a backward incompatible change: @ is no longer a word break;
see https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/pull/2256 for more details.
[BUGFIX] Fixed some problems reported by rchk.
[BACKWARD INCOMPATIBLE CHANGE IF ICU >= 72] If building against ICU >= 72,
note a backward incompatible change: @ is no longer a word break;
see https://github.com/unicode-org/cldr/pull/2256 for more details.
Tiny fixes in the man files.
[DOCUMENTATION] Paper on stringi has been published in the Journal of Statistical Software, see https://dx.doi.org/10.18637/jss.v103.i02.
[BUGFIX] #473, #397: Fixed buffer overflow in stri_dup.
stri_dup, stri_paste, ... fail more graciously on attempts to
generate strings of length >= 2^31 each.
[BUILD TIME] #480: Using Rf_isNull instead of isNull.
[DOCUMENTATION] #462: That the numeric=TRUE collator
does not handle negative numbers correctly is now mentioned in the manual.
[DOCUMENTATION] Paper on stringi has been accepted for publication in the Journal of Statistical Software, see https://stringi.gagolewski.com/_static/vignette/stringi.pdf for a draft version.
[DOCUMENTATION] The stringi website at https://stringi.gagolewski.com now features a comprehensive tutorial based on the aforementioned paper.
[DOCUMENTATION] The ICU Project site has been moved to https://icu.unicode.org/.
[BUILD TIME] #457: The autoconf macros AC_LANG_CPLUSPLUS
and AC_TRY_COMPILE were obsolete.
[BUGFIX] #458: Passing ALTREP objects no longer yields 'embeded nul in string' errors.