Handling Text from Around the World in Go

Handling Text from Around the World in Go

Explore the intricacies of handling text from around the world in Go with Marcel van Lohuizen's GopherCon 2016 talk. Dive into Go's native UTF-8 support, string models, and normal forms. Learn about sequential text processing, character iteration, and the Transformer interface. Discover language identification techniques, language tags, and matching algorithms. Examine examples of language matching in Go, custom locale-specific data, and string comparison methods. Investigate the x/text/search and x/text/collate packages for advanced text operations. Gain insights into secure string comparisons, translation insertion, and best practices for internationalizing Go code.