Supports various utility classes for formatting, parsing, and manipulating text (strings). It also contains some general IO-related classes.

This package should probably be renamed to something`.io`.

It is used by Kawa.

## License

See the file COPYING.

## Author

Per Bothner `<per@bothner.com>`

## How to get it

The `gnu.text` package is currently distributed as part of Kawa, though it can be used independent of the rest of Kawa.

## Bugs and patches

Send them to per@bothner.com, or to the Kawa mailing list.