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/*
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*
* Copyright (C) 2008-2010, International Business Machines
* Corporation, Google and others. All Rights Reserved.
*
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*/
/*
* Author : eldawy@google.com (Mohamed Eldawy)
* ucnvsel.h
*
* Purpose: To generate a list of encodings capable of handling
* a given Unicode text
*
* Started 09-April-2008
*/
#ifndef __ICU_UCNV_SEL_H__
#define __ICU_UCNV_SEL_H__
#include "unicode/uset.h"
#include "unicode/utypes.h"
#include "unicode/utf16.h"
#include "unicode/uenum.h"
#include "unicode/ucnv.h"
#include "unicode/localpointer.h"
/**
* \file
*
* A converter selector is built with a set of encoding/charset names
* and given an input string returns the set of names of the
* corresponding converters which can convert the string.
*
* A converter selector can be serialized into a buffer and reopened
* from the serialized form.
*/
/**
* @{
* The selector data structure
*/
struct UConverterSelector;
typedef struct UConverterSelector UConverterSelector;
/** @} */
/**
* Open a selector.
* If converterListSize is 0, build for all available converters.
* If excludedCodePoints is NULL, don't exclude any code points.
*
* @param converterList a pointer to encoding names needed to be involved.
* Can be NULL if converterListSize==0.
* The list and the names will be cloned, and the caller
* retains ownership of the original.
* @param converterListSize number of encodings in above list.
* If 0, builds a selector for all available converters.
* @param excludedCodePoints a set of code points to be excluded from consideration.
* That is, excluded code points in a string do not change
* the selection result. (They might be handled by a callback.)
* Use NULL to exclude nothing.
* @param whichSet what converter set to use? Use this to determine whether
* to consider only roundtrip mappings or also fallbacks.
* @param status an in/out ICU UErrorCode
* @return the new selector
*
* @stable ICU 4.2
*/
U_STABLE UConverterSelector* U_EXPORT2
ucnvsel_open(const char* const* converterList, int32_t converterListSize,
const USet* excludedCodePoints,
const UConverterUnicodeSet whichSet, UErrorCode* status);
/**
* Closes a selector.
* If any Enumerations were returned by ucnv_select*, they become invalid.
* They can be closed before or after calling ucnv_closeSelector,
* but should never be used after the selector is closed.
*
* @see ucnv_selectForString
* @see ucnv_selectForUTF8
*
* @param sel selector to close
*
* @stable ICU 4.2
*/
U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
ucnvsel_close(UConverterSelector *sel);
#if U_SHOW_CPLUSPLUS_API
U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
/**
* \class LocalUConverterSelectorPointer
* "Smart pointer" class, closes a UConverterSelector via ucnvsel_close().
* For most methods see the LocalPointerBase base class.
*
* @see LocalPointerBase
* @see LocalPointer
* @stable ICU 4.4
*/
U_DEFINE_LOCAL_OPEN_POINTER(LocalUConverterSelectorPointer, UConverterSelector, ucnvsel_close);
U_NAMESPACE_END
#endif
/**
* Open a selector from its serialized form.
* The buffer must remain valid and unchanged for the lifetime of the selector.
* This is much faster than creating a selector from scratch.
* Using a serialized form from a different machine (endianness/charset) is supported.
*
* @param buffer pointer to the serialized form of a converter selector;
* must be 32-bit-aligned
* @param length the capacity of this buffer (can be equal to or larger than
* the actual data length)
* @param status an in/out ICU UErrorCode
* @return the new selector
*
* @stable ICU 4.2
*/
U_STABLE UConverterSelector* U_EXPORT2
ucnvsel_openFromSerialized(const void* buffer, int32_t length, UErrorCode* status);
/**
* Serialize a selector into a linear buffer.
* The serialized form is portable to different machines.
*
* @param sel selector to consider
* @param buffer pointer to 32-bit-aligned memory to be filled with the
* serialized form of this converter selector
* @param bufferCapacity the capacity of this buffer
* @param status an in/out ICU UErrorCode
* @return the required buffer capacity to hold serialize data (even if the call fails
* with a U_BUFFER_OVERFLOW_ERROR, it will return the required capacity)
*
* @stable ICU 4.2
*/
U_STABLE int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucnvsel_serialize(const UConverterSelector* sel,
void* buffer, int32_t bufferCapacity, UErrorCode* status);
/**
* Select converters that can map all characters in a UTF-16 string,
* ignoring the excluded code points.
*
* @param sel a selector
* @param s UTF-16 string
* @param length length of the string, or -1 if NUL-terminated
* @param status an in/out ICU UErrorCode
* @return an enumeration containing encoding names.
* The returned encoding names and their order will be the same as
* supplied when building the selector.
*
* @stable ICU 4.2
*/
U_STABLE UEnumeration * U_EXPORT2
ucnvsel_selectForString(const UConverterSelector* sel,
const UChar *s, int32_t length, UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Select converters that can map all characters in a UTF-8 string,
* ignoring the excluded code points.
*
* @param sel a selector
* @param s UTF-8 string
* @param length length of the string, or -1 if NUL-terminated
* @param status an in/out ICU UErrorCode
* @return an enumeration containing encoding names.
* The returned encoding names and their order will be the same as
* supplied when building the selector.
*
* @stable ICU 4.2
*/
U_STABLE UEnumeration * U_EXPORT2
ucnvsel_selectForUTF8(const UConverterSelector* sel,
const char *s, int32_t length, UErrorCode *status);
#endif /* __ICU_UCNV_SEL_H__ */