Fast, correct, consistent, portable and convenient character string/text
processing in every locale and any native encoding. Owing to the use of the
'ICU' (International Components for Unicode) library, the package provides 'R'
users with platform-independent functions known to 'Java', 'Perl', 'Python',
'PHP' and 'Ruby' programmers. Available features include: pattern searching
(e.g., with 'Java'-like regular expressions or the 'Unicode' collation
algorithm), random string generation, case mapping, string transliteration,
concatenation, Unicode normalization, date-time formatting and parsing and many
more.
