stringi_1.8.1

1.8.1 (2023-11-09)

• [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 The package is no longer shipped with the very outdated ICU55 bundle.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.