source/i18n/unicode/translit.h

/*
* Copyright © {1999}, International Business Machines Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
**********************************************************************
*   Date        Name        Description
*   11/17/99    aliu        Creation.
**********************************************************************
*/
#ifndef TRANSLIT_H
#define TRANSLIT_H

#include "unicode/unistr.h"
#include "unicode/parseerr.h"
#include "unicode/utrans.h" // UTransPosition, UTransDirection

class Replaceable;
class UnicodeFilter;
class TransliterationRuleData;
class Hashtable;
class U_I18N_API UVector;
class CompoundTransliterator;

/**
 * <code>Transliterator</code> is an abstract class that
 * transliterates text from one format to another.  The most common
 * kind of transliterator is a script, or alphabet, transliterator.
 * For example, a Russian to Latin transliterator changes Russian text
 * written in Cyrillic characters to phonetically equivalent Latin
 * characters.  It does not <em>translate</em> Russian to English!
 * Transliteration, unlike translation, operates on characters, without
 * reference to the meanings of words and sentences.
 *
 * <p>Although script conversion is its most common use, a
 * transliterator can actually perform a more general class of tasks.
 * In fact, <code>Transliterator</code> defines a very general API
 * which specifies only that a segment of the input text is replaced
 * by new text.  The particulars of this conversion are determined
 * entirely by subclasses of <code>Transliterator</code>.
 *
 * <p><b>Transliterators are stateless</b>
 *
 * <p><code>Transliterator</code> objects are <em>stateless</em>; they
 * retain no information between calls to
 * <code>transliterate()</code>.  (However, this does <em>not</em>
 * mean that threads may share transliterators without synchronizing
 * them.  Transliterators are not immutable, so they must be
 * synchronized when shared between threads.)  This1 might seem to
 * limit the complexity of the transliteration operation.  In
 * practice, subclasses perform complex transliterations by delaying
 * the replacement of text until it is known that no other
 * replacements are possible.  In other words, although the
 * <code>Transliterator</code> objects are stateless, the source text
 * itself embodies all the needed information, and delayed operation
 * allows arbitrary complexity.
 *
 * <p><b>Batch transliteration</b>
 *
 * <p>The simplest way to perform transliteration is all at once, on a
 * string of existing text.  This is referred to as <em>batch</em>
 * transliteration.  For example, given a string <code>input</code>
 * and a transliterator <code>t</code>, the call
 *
 * <blockquote><code>String result = t.transliterate(input);
 * </code></blockquote>
 *
 * will transliterate it and return the result.  Other methods allow
 * the client to specify a substring to be transliterated and to use
 * {@link Replaceable} objects instead of strings, in order to
 * preserve out-of-band information (such as text styles).
 *
 * <p><b>Keyboard transliteration</b>
 *
 * <p>Somewhat more involved is <em>keyboard</em>, or incremental
 * transliteration.  This is the transliteration of text that is
 * arriving from some source (typically the user's keyboard) one
 * character at a time, or in some other piecemeal fashion.
 *
 * <p>In keyboard transliteration, a <code>Replaceable</code> buffer
 * stores the text.  As text is inserted, as much as possible is
 * transliterated on the fly.  This means a GUI that displays the
 * contents of the buffer may show text being modified as each new
 * character arrives.
 *
 * <p>Consider the simple <code>RuleBasedTransliterator</code>:
 *
 * <blockquote><code>
 * th&gt;{theta}<br>
 * t&gt;{tau}
 * </code></blockquote>
 *
 * When the user types 't', nothing will happen, since the
 * transliterator is waiting to see if the next character is 'h'.  To
 * remedy this, we introduce the notion of a cursor, marked by a '|'
 * in the output string:
 *
 * <blockquote><code>
 * t&gt;|{tau}<br>
 * {tau}h&gt;{theta}
 * </code></blockquote>
 *
 * Now when the user types 't', tau appears, and if the next character
 * is 'h', the tau changes to a theta.  This is accomplished by
 * maintaining a cursor position (independent of the insertion point,
 * and invisible in the GUI) across calls to
 * <code>transliterate()</code>.  Typically, the cursor will
 * be coincident with the insertion point, but in a case like the one
 * above, it will precede the insertion point.
 *
 * <p>Keyboard transliteration methods maintain a set of three indices
 * that are updated with each call to
 * <code>transliterate()</code>, including the cursor, start,
 * and limit.  Since these indices are changed by the method, they are
 * passed in an <code>int[]</code> array. The <code>START</code> index
 * marks the beginning of the substring that the transliterator will
 * look at.  It is advanced as text becomes committed (but it is not
 * the committed index; that's the <code>CURSOR</code>).  The
 * <code>CURSOR</code> index, described above, marks the point at
 * which the transliterator last stopped, either because it reached
 * the end, or because it required more characters to disambiguate
 * between possible inputs.  The <code>CURSOR</code> can also be
 * explicitly set by rules in a <code>RuleBasedTransliterator</code>.
 * Any characters before the <code>CURSOR</code> index are frozen;
 * future keyboard transliteration calls within this input sequence
 * will not change them.  New text is inserted at the
 * <code>LIMIT</code> index, which marks the end of the substring that
 * the transliterator looks at.
 *
 * <p>Because keyboard transliteration assumes that more characters
 * are to arrive, it is conservative in its operation.  It only
 * transliterates when it can do so unambiguously.  Otherwise it waits
 * for more characters to arrive.  When the client code knows that no
 * more characters are forthcoming, perhaps because the user has
 * performed some input termination operation, then it should call
 * <code>finishTransliteration()</code> to complete any
 * pending transliterations.
 *
 * <p><b>Inverses</b>
 *
 * <p>Pairs of transliterators may be inverses of one another.  For
 * example, if transliterator <b>A</b> transliterates characters by
 * incrementing their Unicode value (so "abc" -> "def"), and
 * transliterator <b>B</b> decrements character values, then <b>A</b>
 * is an inverse of <b>B</b> and vice versa.  If we compose <b>A</b>
 * with <b>B</b> in a compound transliterator, the result is the
 * indentity transliterator, that is, a transliterator that does not
 * change its input text.
 *
 * The <code>Transliterator</code> method <code>getInverse()</code>
 * returns a transliterator's inverse, if one exists, or
 * <code>null</code> otherwise.  However, the result of
 * <code>getInverse()</code> usually will <em>not</em> be a true
 * mathematical inverse.  This is because true inverse transliterators
 * are difficult to formulate.  For example, consider two
 * transliterators: <b>AB</b>, which transliterates the character 'A'
 * to 'B', and <b>BA</b>, which transliterates 'B' to 'A'.  It might
 * seem that these are exact inverses, since
 *
 * <blockquote>"A" x <b>AB</b> -> "B"<br>
 * "B" x <b>BA</b> -> "A"</blockquote>
 *
 * where 'x' represents transliteration.  However,
 *
 * <blockquote>"ABCD" x <b>AB</b> -> "BBCD"<br>
 * "BBCD" x <b>BA</b> -> "AACD"</blockquote>
 *
 * so <b>AB</b> composed with <b>BA</b> is not the
 * identity. Nonetheless, <b>BA</b> may be usefully considered to be
 * <b>AB</b>'s inverse, and it is on this basis that
 * <b>AB</b><code>.getInverse()</code> could legitimately return
 * <b>BA</b>.
 *
 * <p><b>IDs and display names</b>
 *
 * <p>A transliterator is designated by a short identifier string or
 * <em>ID</em>.  IDs follow the format <em>source-destination</em>,
 * where <em>source</em> describes the entity being replaced, and
 * <em>destination</em> describes the entity replacing
 * <em>source</em>.  The entities may be the names of scripts,
 * particular sequences of characters, or whatever else it is that the
 * transliterator converts to or from.  For example, a transliterator
 * from Russian to Latin might be named "Russian-Latin".  A
 * transliterator from keyboard escape sequences to Latin-1 characters
 * might be named "KeyboardEscape-Latin1".  By convention, system
 * entity names are in English, with the initial letters of words
 * capitalized; user entity names may follow any format so long as
 * they do not contain dashes.
 *
 * <p>In addition to programmatic IDs, transliterator objects have
 * display names for presentation in user interfaces, returned by
 * {@link #getDisplayName}.
 *
 * <p><b>Factory methods and registration</b>
 *
 * <p>In general, client code should use the factory method
 * <code>getInstance()</code> to obtain an instance of a
 * transliterator given its ID.  Valid IDs may be enumerated using
 * <code>getAvailableIDs()</code>.  Since transliterators are mutable,
 * multiple calls to <code>getInstance()</code> with the same ID will
 * return distinct objects.
 *
 * <p>In addition to the system transliterators registered at startup,
 * user transliterators may be registered by calling
 * <code>registerInstance()</code> at run time.  A registered instance
 * acts a template; future calls to <tt>getInstance()</tt> with the ID
 * of the registered object return clones of that object.  Thus any
 * object passed to <tt>registerInstance()</tt> must implement
 * <tt>clone()</tt> propertly.  To register a transliterator subclass
 * without instantiating it (until it is needed), users may call
 * <code>registerClass()</code>.  In this case, the objects are
 * instantiated by invoking the zero-argument public constructor of
 * the class.
 *
 * <p><b>Subclassing</b>
 *
 * Subclasses must implement the abstract method
 * <code>handleTransliterate()</code>.  <p>Subclasses should override
 * the <code>transliterate()</code> method taking a
 * <code>Replaceable</code> and the <code>transliterate()</code>
 * method taking a <code>String</code> and <code>StringBuffer</code>
 * if the performance of these methods can be improved over the
 * performance obtained by the default implementations in this class.
 *
 * @author Alan Liu
 * @draft
 */
class U_I18N_API Transliterator {

private:

    /**
     * Programmatic name, e.g., "Latin-Arabic".
     */
    UnicodeString ID;

    /** 
     * This transliterator's filter.  Any character for which
     * <tt>filter.contains()</tt> returns <tt>false</tt> will not be
     * altered by this transliterator.  If <tt>filter</tt> is
     * <tt>null</tt> then no filtering is applied.
     */
    UnicodeFilter* filter;

    int32_t maximumContextLength;

    /**
     * Dictionary of known transliterators.  Keys are <code>String</code>
     * names, values are one of the following:
     *
     * <ul><li><code>Transliterator</code> objects
     *
     * <li><code>Class</code> objects.  Such objects must represent
     * subclasses of <code>Transliterator</code>, and must satisfy the
     * constraints described in <code>registerClass()</code>
     *
     * <li><code>RULE_BASED_PLACEHOLDER</code>, in which case the ID
     * will have its first '-' removed and be appended to
     * RB_RULE_BASED_PREFIX to form a resource bundle name from which
     * the RB_RULE key is looked up to obtain the rule.
     *
     * <li><code>REVERSE_RULE_BASED_PLACEHOLDER</code>.  Like
     * <code>RULE_BASED_PLACEHOLDER</code>, except the entity names in
     * the ID are reversed, and the argument
     * RuleBasedTransliterator.REVERSE is pased to the
     * RuleBasedTransliterator constructor.
     * </ul>
     */
    static Hashtable* cache;

    /**
     * The mutex controlling access to the cache.
     */
    static UMTX cacheMutex;

    /**
     * When set to TRUE, the cache has been initialized.  Any code must
     * check this boolean before accessing the cache, and if the boolean
     * is FALSE, it must call initializeCache().  We do this form of lazy
     * evaluation for two reasons: (1) so we don't initialize if we don't
     * have to (i.e., if no one is using Transliterator, but has included
     * the code as part of a shared library, and (2) to avoid static
     * intialization problems.
     */
    static UBool cacheInitialized;

    /**
     * In Java, the cache stores objects of different types and
     * singleton objects as placeholders for rule-based
     * transliterators to be built as needed.  In C++ we use the
     * following struct to achieve the same purpose.  Instances of
     * this struct can be placeholders, can represent prototype
     * transliterators to be cloned, or can represent
     * RuleBasedTransliterator::Data objects.  We don't support
     * storing classes in the cache because we don't have the rtti
     * infrastructure for it.  We could easily add this if there is a
     * need for it in the future.  The rbFile is the resource bundle
     * file name for rule-based transliterators.
     */
    struct CacheEntry {
        enum Type {
            RULE_BASED_PLACEHOLDER,
            REVERSE_RULE_BASED_PLACEHOLDER,
            PROTOTYPE,
            RBT_DATA,
            NONE // Only used for uninitialized entries
        } entryType;
        UnicodeString rbFile; // For *PLACEHOLDER
        union {
            Transliterator* prototype; // For PROTOTYPE
            TransliterationRuleData* data; // For RBT_DATA
        } u;
        CacheEntry();
        ~CacheEntry();
        void adoptPrototype(Transliterator* adopted);
    };

    /**
     * Prefix for resource bundle key for the display name for a
     * transliterator.  The ID is appended to this to form the key.
     * The resource bundle value should be a String.
     */
    static const char* RB_DISPLAY_NAME_PREFIX;

    /**
     * Prefix for resource bundle key for the display name for a
     * transliterator SCRIPT.  The ID is appended to this to form the key.
     * The resource bundle value should be a String.
     */
    static const char* RB_SCRIPT_DISPLAY_NAME_PREFIX;

    /**
     * Resource bundle key for display name pattern.
     * The resource bundle value should be a String forming a
     * MessageFormat pattern, e.g.:
     * "{0,choice,0#|1#{1} Transliterator|2#{1} to {2} Transliterator}".
     */
    static const char* RB_DISPLAY_NAME_PATTERN;

    /**
     * Resource bundle key for the list of RuleBasedTransliterator IDs.
     * The resource bundle value should be a String[] with each element
     * being a valid ID.  The ID will be appended to RB_RULE_BASED_PREFIX
     * to obtain the class name in which the RB_RULE key will be sought.
     */
    static const char* RB_RULE_BASED_IDS;

    /**
     * Resource bundle key for the RuleBasedTransliterator rule.
     */
    static const char* RB_RULE;

protected:

    /**
     * Default constructor.
     * @param ID the string identifier for this transliterator
     * @param adoptedFilter the filter.  Any character for which
     * <tt>filter.contains()</tt> returns <tt>false</tt> will not be
     * altered by this transliterator.  If <tt>filter</tt> is
     * <tt>null</tt> then no filtering is applied.
     */
    Transliterator(const UnicodeString& ID, UnicodeFilter* adoptedFilter);

    /**
     * Copy constructor.
     */
    Transliterator(const Transliterator&);

    /**
     * Assignment operator.
     */
    Transliterator& operator=(const Transliterator&);

public:

    /**
     * Destructor.
     * @draft
     */
    virtual ~Transliterator();

    /**
     * Implements Cloneable.
     * All subclasses are encouraged to implement this method if it is
     * possible and reasonable to do so.  Subclasses that are to be
     * registered with the system using <tt>registerInstance()<tt>
     * are required to implement this method.  If a subclass does not
     * implement clone() properly and is registered with the system
     * using registerInstance(), then the default clone() implementation
     * will return null, and calls to createInstance() will fail.
     *
     * @see #registerInstance
     * @draft
     */
    virtual Transliterator* clone() const { return 0; }

    /**
     * Transliterates a segment of a string, with optional filtering.
     *
     * @param text the string to be transliterated
     * @param start the beginning index, inclusive; <code>0 <= start
     * <= limit</code>.
     * @param limit the ending index, exclusive; <code>start <= limit
     * <= text.length()</code>.
     * @param filter the filter.  Any character for which
     * <tt>filter.contains()</tt> returns <tt>false</tt> will not be
     * altered by this transliterator.  If <tt>filter</tt> is
     * <tt>null</tt> then no filtering is applied.
     * @return The new limit index.  The text previously occupying <code>[start,
     * limit)</code> has been transliterated, possibly to a string of a different
     * length, at <code>[start, </code><em>new-limit</em><code>)</code>, where
     * <em>new-limit</em> is the return value.
     * @draft
     */
    virtual int32_t transliterate(Replaceable& text,
                                  int32_t start, int32_t limit) const;

    /**
     * Transliterates an entire string in place. Convenience method.
     * @param text the string to be transliterated
     * @draft
     */
    virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text) const;

    /**
     * Transliterates the portion of the text buffer that can be
     * transliterated unambiguosly after new text has been inserted,
     * typically as a result of a keyboard event.  The new text in
     * <code>insertion</code> will be inserted into <code>text</code>
     * at <code>index.limit</code>, advancing
     * <code>index.limit</code> by <code>insertion.length()</code>.
     * Then the transliterator will try to transliterate characters of
     * <code>text</code> between <code>index.cursor</code> and
     * <code>index.limit</code>.  Characters before
     * <code>index.cursor</code> will not be changed.
     *
     * <p>Upon return, values in <code>index</code> will be updated.
     * <code>index.start</code> will be advanced to the first
     * character that future calls to this method will read.
     * <code>index.cursor</code> and <code>index.limit</code> will
     * be adjusted to delimit the range of text that future calls to
     * this method may change.
     *
     * <p>Typical usage of this method begins with an initial call
     * with <code>index.start</code> and <code>index.limit</code>
     * set to indicate the portion of <code>text</code> to be
     * transliterated, and <code>index.cursor == index.start</code>.
     * Thereafter, <code>index</code> can be used without
     * modification in future calls, provided that all changes to
     * <code>text</code> are made via this method.
     *
     * <p>This method assumes that future calls may be made that will
     * insert new text into the buffer.  As a result, it only performs
     * unambiguous transliterations.  After the last call to this
     * method, there may be untransliterated text that is waiting for
     * more input to resolve an ambiguity.  In order to perform these
     * pending transliterations, clients should call {@link
     * #finishTransliteration} after the last call to this
     * method has been made.
     * 
     * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and untransliterated text
     * @param index an array of three integers.
     *
     * <ul><li><code>index.start</code>: the beginning index,
     * inclusive; <code>0 <= index.start <= index.limit</code>.
     *
     * <li><code>index.limit</code>: the ending index, exclusive;
     * <code>index.start <= index.limit <= text.length()</code>.
     * <code>insertion</code> is inserted at
     * <code>index.limit</code>.
     *
     * <li><code>index.cursor</code>: the next character to be
     * considered for transliteration; <code>index.start <=
     * index.cursor <= index.limit</code>.  Characters before
     * <code>index.cursor</code> will not be changed by future calls
     * to this method.</ul>
     *
     * @param insertion text to be inserted and possibly
     * transliterated into the translation buffer at
     * <code>index.limit</code>.  If <code>null</code> then no text
     * is inserted.
     * @see #handleTransliterate
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if <code>index</code>
     * is invalid
     * @draft
     */
    virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text, UTransPosition& index,
                               const UnicodeString& insertion,
                               UErrorCode& status) const;

    /**
     * Transliterates the portion of the text buffer that can be
     * transliterated unambiguosly after a new character has been
     * inserted, typically as a result of a keyboard event.  This is a
     * convenience method; see {@link
     * #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)} for details.
     * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
     * untransliterated text
     * @param index an array of three integers.  See {@link
     * #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)}.
     * @param insertion text to be inserted and possibly
     * transliterated into the translation buffer at
     * <code>index.limit</code>.
     * @see #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)
     * @draft
     */
    virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text, UTransPosition& index,
                               UChar insertion,
                               UErrorCode& status) const;
    
    /**
     * Transliterates the portion of the text buffer that can be
     * transliterated unambiguosly.  This is a convenience method; see
     * {@link #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)} for
     * details.
     * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
     * untransliterated text
     * @param index an array of three integers.  See {@link
     * #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)}.
     * @see #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)
     * @draft
     */
    virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text, UTransPosition& index,
                               UErrorCode& status) const;

    /**
     * Finishes any pending transliterations that were waiting for
     * more characters.  Clients should call this method as the last
     * call after a sequence of one or more calls to
     * <code>transliterate()</code>.
     * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
     * untransliterated text.
     * @param index the array of indices previously passed to {@link
     * #transliterate}
     * @draft
     */
    virtual void finishTransliteration(Replaceable& text,
                                       UTransPosition& index) const;

private:

    /**
     * This internal method does incremental transliteration.  If the
     * 'insertion' is non-null then we append it to 'text' before
     * proceeding.  This method calls through to the pure virtual
     * framework method handleTransliterate() to do the actual
     * work.
     */
    void _transliterate(Replaceable& text,
                        UTransPosition& index,
                        const UnicodeString* insertion,
                        UErrorCode &status) const;

protected:

    /**
     * Abstract method that concrete subclasses define to implement
     * keyboard transliteration.  This method should transliterate all
     * characters between <code>index.cursor</code> and
     * <code>index.limit</code> that can be unambiguously
     * transliterated, regardless of future insertions of text at
     * <code>index.limit</code>.  <code>index.cursor</code> should
     * be advanced past committed characters (those that will not
     * change in future calls to this method).
     * <code>index.limit</code> should be updated to reflect text
     * replacements that shorten or lengthen the text between
     * <code>index.cursor</code> and <code>index.limit</code>.  Upon
     * return, neither <code>index.cursor</code> nor
     * <code>index.limit</code> should be less than the initial value
     * of <code>index.cursor</code>.  <code>index.start</code>
     * should <em>not</em> be changed.
     *
     * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
     * untransliterated text
     * @param index an array of three integers.  See {@link
     * #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)}.
     * @see #transliterate
     */
    virtual void handleTransliterate(Replaceable& text,
                                     UTransPosition& index,
                                     UBool incremental) const = 0;

    // C++ requires this friend declaration so CompoundTransliterator
    // can access handleTransliterate.  Alternatively, we could
    // make handleTransliterate public.
    friend class CompoundTransliterator;

public:

    /**
     * Returns the length of the longest context required by this transliterator.
     * This is <em>preceding</em> context.  The default implementation supplied
     * by <code>Transliterator</code> returns zero; subclasses
     * that use preceding context should override this method to return the
     * correct value.  For example, if a transliterator translates "ddd" (where
     * d is any digit) to "555" when preceded by "(ddd)", then the preceding
     * context length is 5, the length of "(ddd)".
     *
     * @return The maximum number of preceding context characters this
     * transliterator needs to examine
     * @draft
     */
    int32_t getMaximumContextLength(void) const;

protected:

    /**
     * Method for subclasses to use to set the maximum context length.
     * @see #getMaximumContextLength
     */
    void setMaximumContextLength(int32_t maxContextLength);

public:

    /**
     * Returns a programmatic identifier for this transliterator.
     * If this identifier is passed to <code>getInstance()</code>, it
     * will return this object, if it has been registered.
     * @see #registerInstance
     * @see #registerClass
     * @see #getAvailableIDs
     * @draft
     */
    virtual const UnicodeString& getID(void) const;

    /**
     * Returns a name for this transliterator that is appropriate for
     * display to the user in the default locale.  See {@link
     * #getDisplayName(Locale)} for details.
     * @draft
     */
    static UnicodeString& getDisplayName(const UnicodeString& ID,
                                         UnicodeString& result);

    /**
     * Returns a name for this transliterator that is appropriate for
     * display to the user in the given locale.  This name is taken
     * from the locale resource data in the standard manner of the
     * <code>java.text</code> package.
     *
     * <p>If no localized names exist in the system resource bundles,
     * a name is synthesized using a localized
     * <code>MessageFormat</code> pattern from the resource data.  The
     * arguments to this pattern are an integer followed by one or two
     * strings.  The integer is the number of strings, either 1 or 2.
     * The strings are formed by splitting the ID for this
     * transliterator at the first '-'.  If there is no '-', then the
     * entire ID forms the only string.
     * @param inLocale the Locale in which the display name should be
     * localized.
     * @see java.text.MessageFormat
     * @draft
     */
    static UnicodeString& getDisplayName(const UnicodeString& ID,
                                         const Locale& inLocale,
                                         UnicodeString& result);

    /**
     * Returns the filter used by this transliterator, or <tt>NULL</tt>
     * if this transliterator uses no filter.
     * @draft
     */
    virtual const UnicodeFilter* getFilter(void) const;

    /**
     * Returns the filter used by this transliterator, or <tt>NULL</tt> if this
     * transliterator uses no filter.  The caller must eventually delete the
     * result.  After this call, this transliterator's filter is set to
     * <tt>NULL</tt>.  Calls adoptFilter().
     */
    UnicodeFilter* orphanFilter(void);

    /**
     * Changes the filter used by this transliterator.  If the filter
     * is set to <tt>null</tt> then no filtering will occur.
     *
     * <p>Callers must take care if a transliterator is in use by
     * multiple threads.  The filter should not be changed by one
     * thread while another thread may be transliterating.
     * @draft
     */
    virtual void adoptFilter(UnicodeFilter* adoptedFilter);

    /**
     * Returns this transliterator's inverse.  See the class
     * documentation for details.  This implementation simply inverts
     * the two entities in the ID and attempts to retrieve the
     * resulting transliterator.  That is, if <code>getID()</code>
     * returns "A-B", then this method will return the result of
     * <code>getInstance("B-A")</code>, or <code>null</code> if that
     * call fails.
     *
     * <p>This method does not take filtering into account.  The
     * returned transliterator will have no filter.
     *
     * <p>Subclasses with knowledge of their inverse may wish to
     * override this method.
     *
     * @return a transliterator that is an inverse, not necessarily
     * exact, of this transliterator, or <code>null</code> if no such
     * transliterator is registered.
     * @see #registerInstance
     * @draft
     */
    Transliterator* createInverse(void) const;

    /**
     * Returns a <code>Transliterator</code> object given its ID.
     * The ID must be either a system transliterator ID or a ID registered
     * using <code>registerInstance()</code>.
     *
     * @param ID a valid ID, as enumerated by <code>getAvailableIDs()</code>
     * @return A <code>Transliterator</code> object with the given ID
     * @exception IllegalArgumentException if the given ID is invalid.
     * @see #registerInstance
     * @see #getAvailableIDs
     * @see #getID
     * @draft
     */
    static Transliterator* createInstance(const UnicodeString& ID,
                                          UTransDirection dir = UTRANS_FORWARD,
                                          UParseError* parseError = 0);

private:

    /**
     * This is the path to the subdirectory within the locale data
     * directory that contains the rule-based transliterator resource
     * bundle files.  This is constructed dynamically the first time
     * Transliterator::getDataDirectory() is called.
     */
    static char* DATA_DIR;
    
    /**
     * This is the name of a subdirectory within the locale data directory
     * that contains the rule-based transliterator resource bundle files.
     */
    static const char* RESOURCE_SUB_DIR;

    /**
     * Returns the directory in which the transliterator resource bundle
     * files are located.  This is a subdirectory, named RESOURCE_SUB_DIR,
     * under Locale::getDataDirectory().  It ends in a path separator.
     */
    static const char* getDataDirectory(void);

    /**
     * Returns a transliterator object given its ID.  Unlike getInstance(),
     * this method returns null if it cannot make use of the given ID.
     */
    static Transliterator* _createInstance(const UnicodeString& ID,
                                           UParseError* parseError = 0);

public:

    /**
     * Registers a instance <tt>obj</tt> of a subclass of
     * <code>Transliterator</code> with the system.  When
     * <tt>createInstance()</tt> is called with an ID string that is
     * equal to <tt>obj->getID()</tt>, then <tt>obj->clone()</tt> is
     * returned.
     *
     * After this call the Transliterator class owns the adoptedObj
     * and will delete it.
     *
     * @param obj an instance of subclass of
     * <code>Transliterator</code> that defines <tt>clone()</tt>
     * @see #getInstance
     * @see #registerClass
     * @see #unregister
     * @draft
     */
    static void registerInstance(Transliterator* adoptedObj,
                                 UErrorCode& status);

private:

    /**
     * This internal method registers a prototype instance in the cache.
     * The CALLER MUST MUTEX using cacheMutex before calling this method.
     */
    static void _registerInstance(Transliterator* adoptedPrototype,
                                  UErrorCode &status);

public:

    /**
     * Unregisters a transliterator or class.  This may be either
     * a system transliterator or a user transliterator or class.
     * 
     * @param ID the ID of the transliterator or class
     * @return the <code>Object</code> that was registered with
     * <code>ID</code>, or <code>null</code> if none was
     * @see #registerInstance
     * @see #registerClass
     * @draft
     */
    static void unregister(const UnicodeString& ID);

private:

    /**
     * Unregisters a transliterator or class.  Internal method.
     * Prerequisites: The cache must be initialized, and the
     * caller must own the cacheMutex.
     */
    static void _unregister(const UnicodeString& ID);

    /**
     * Returns an enumeration over the programmatic names of registered
     * <code>Transliterator</code> objects.  This includes both system
     * transliterators and user transliterators registered using
     * <code>registerInstance()</code>.  The enumerated names may be
     * passed to <code>getInstance()</code>.
     *
     * @return An <code>Enumeration</code> over <code>String</code> objects
     * @see #getInstance
     * @see #registerInstance
     */
    // virtual Enumeration getAvailableIDs();

    /**
     * Vector of registered IDs.
     */
    static UVector cacheIDs;

public:

    /**
     * Return the number of IDs currently registered with the system.
     * To retrieve the actual IDs, call getAvailableID(i) with
     * i from 0 to countAvailableIDs() - 1.
     * @draft
     */
    static int32_t countAvailableIDs(void);

    /**
     * Return the index-th available ID.  index must be between 0
     * and countAvailableIDs() - 1, inclusive.  If index is out of
     * range, the result of getAvailableID(0) is returned.
     * @draft
     */
    static const UnicodeString& getAvailableID(int32_t index);

protected:

    /**
     * Method for subclasses to use to obtain a character in the given
     * string, with filtering.
     */
    UChar filteredCharAt(const Replaceable& text, int32_t i) const;

    /**
     * Set the ID of this transliterators.  Subclasses shouldn't do
     * this, unless the underlying script behavior has changed.
     */
    void setID(const UnicodeString& id);

private:
    /**
     * Comparison function for UVector.  Compares two UnicodeString
     * objects given void* pointers to them.
     */
    static UBool compareIDs(void* a, void* b);

    static void initializeCache(void);

    /* IDs take the form <source> ID_SEP <target>, where
     * <source> and <target> are (usually) script names.
     * Compound IDs take the form <ID> ( ID_DELIM <ID> )+.
     */
    static const UChar ID_SEP;   // ((UChar)0x002D) /*-*/
    static const UChar ID_DELIM; // ((UChar)0x003B) /*;*/
};

inline int32_t Transliterator::getMaximumContextLength(void) const {
    return maximumContextLength;
}

inline void Transliterator::setID(const UnicodeString& id) {
    ID = id;
}

#endif