Free utf software for linux

UTF8Script provides an additional binary format for Linux: scripts that start with a UTF-8 signature (aka BOM), i.e. with the byte sequence xefxbbxbf#!.

This is particularly useful for scripting languages that recognize the BOM, e.g. Python. With Python 2.3 or newer, scripts with the UTF-8 BOM are considered UTF-8 enocded without the need for an addition encoding declaration.

Luit is a filter that can be run between an arbitrary application and a UTF-8 terminal emulator. It will convert application output from the locales encoding into UTF-8, and convert terminal input from UTF-8 into the locales encoding. It is mainly used to support xterm.

ContentFeeder - A library used for assembling content feeds. RSS 2.0 is currently the only format supported, but can easily be extended to handle more.
ContentFeeder_RSS2 is the class name to instantiate to create RSS 2.0 feeds.
Example:
require(ContentFeeder.class.php);
$rss =& new ContentFeeder_RSS2;
Enhancements:
- change default character set to UTF-8
- change default escapement to none
- add escape type of none
- add setDefaultEscapeType()

Unicode Utilities project are a set of programs for manipulating and analyzing Unicode text. uniname defaults to printing the character offset of each character, its byte offset, its hex code value, its encoding, the glyph itself, and its name. Command line options allow undesired information to be suppressed and the Unicode range to be added.
unidesc reports the character ranges to which different portions of the text belong. unihist generates a histogram of the characters in its input. ExplicateUTF8 is intended for debugging or for learning about Unicode. It determines and explains the validity of a sequence of bytes as a UTF-8 encoding. unirev reverses UTF-8 strings.
Enhancements:
- Adds to unidesc the option -r which causes it to list the ranges detected after reading all input rather than listing them as they are encountered, and adds to uniname the option -B which causes it to ignore characters within the Basic Multilingual Plane.

Lingua::RU::Charset is a Perl extension for detecting and converting various russian character sets: KOI8-r, Windows-1251, CP866, ISO-8859-5, X-Mac-Cyrillic, russian text in english letters, russian part of Unicode and UTF-8. Lingua::RU::Charset module can be especially useful for computers with broken cyrillic locales (like foreign web hosts).

SYNOPSIS

use Lingua::RU::Charset qw (:CHARSET);
use Lingua::RU::Charset qw (:CONVERT);
use Lingua::RU::Charset qw (:CONVERT :CHARCASE);
use Lingua::RU::Charset qw (any2koi koi2lc koi2uc);

More documentation and examples coming soon...

NOTE

Unfortunately I dont have time to implement the Unicode and UTF-8 subroutines. But I am sure that such functions would be useful for interesting Perl scripts exchanging russian data with Java servlets. So you are welcome to submit some code!

gtmess is a console MSN Messenger client for Linux and other Unix systems that conform to the POSIX standard. gtmess project supports the MSNP9 protocol version.
Main features:
- supports MSNP9 protocol version
- portable to many unix (POSIX) systems
- console interface (using curses)
- full unicode (UTF-8) support for input and output
- multiple threads (using pthreads)
- SSL support (using OpenSSL)
- notification window (external Tcl/Tk script)
- spoof typing user
- sound effects

moftpd project is a powerful ftp server supporting IPv6, SQL, TLS and much more.
Main features:
RFC compiance
moftpd is a very RFC compliant server. supporting all standard commands and all protocols except SKIPJACK-KEA encryption. Included standards are IPv6, TLS encryption and verification, UTF-8, internationalisation and more.
Powerful authentication
moftpd includes powerful control over authenticating users. In addition to the system users you can specify any number of users in the configuration file, and put permissions on directories and files on a per user bases (or group of users).
You can let users connect to different servers based on the client ip address, and a compliant client can choose server upon connect if theres several available.
moftpd can also authenticate users based on the certificate they present when encrypting the connection. This is useful as you can restrict an account to only be allowed with a specific private key.
There is also support for SQL (currently MySQL only) for specifying users and directory permissions.
Strong permission system
As mentioned above, file and directory permissions can be specified individually for each user and directory. You can choose between a real or faked chroot, and if using the latter, allow specific symlinks out of the chroot to access other directories.
You can also put restrictions on critical files, which must be encrypted and/or signed during the transfer. File and directory permissions can also be fetched from SQL.
Internationalisation
moftpd is fully compliant with the specification of running FTP in different languages. So far, only Swedish is implemented, but more is easy to add.
moftpd always run in UTF-8 as per the RFC, but has functions for converting file names and commands in different encodings to UTF-8.
Good documentaion
An easy to navigate html documentation is included and is also available here on the homepage. For those that prefer text documents that is also available and the HTML code for the options are actually generated from an included XML source.