The m17n library is a multilingual text processing library for the c language. this library has following features:
- the m17n library is an open source software.
- the m17n library for any linux/unix applications.
- the m17n library realizes multilingualization of many aspects of
applications.
- the m17n library represents multilingual text as an object named
m-text. m-text is a string with attributes called text properties,
and designed to substitute for string in c. text properties carry any
information required to input, display and edit the text.
- the m17n library supports functions to handle m-texts.
m17n is an abbreviation of multilingualization.

this package contains the runtime part of m17n-lib.