utf8.h

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/*
 * Copyright 2005 John M Bell <jmb202@ecs.soton.ac.uk>
 *
 * This file is part of NetSurf, http://www.netsurf-browser.org/
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 */
 
/** \file
 * UTF-8 manipulation functions (interface).
 */
 
#ifndef _NETSURF_UTILS_UTF8_H_
#define _NETSURF_UTILS_UTF8_H_
 
#include <stdbool.h>
#include <stdint.h>
 
#include "utils/errors.h"
 
/**
 * Convert a UTF-8 multibyte sequence into a single UCS4 character
 *
 * Encoding of UCS values outside the UTF-16 plane has been removed from
 * RFC3629. This function conforms to RFC2279, however.
 *
 * \param[in] s The sequence to process
 * \param[in] l Length of sequence
 * \return UCS4 character
 */
uint32_t utf8_to_ucs4(const char *s, size_t l);
 
/**
 * Convert a single UCS4 character into a UTF-8 multibyte sequence
 *
 * Encoding of UCS values outside the UTF-16 plane has been removed from
 * RFC3629. This function conforms to RFC2279, however.
 *
 * \param c  The character to process (0 <= c <= 0x7FFFFFFF)
 * \param s  Pointer to 6 byte long output buffer
 * \return   Length of multibyte sequence
 */
size_t utf8_from_ucs4(uint32_t c, char *s);
 
 
/**
 * Calculate the length (in characters) of a NULL-terminated UTF-8 string
 *
 * \param s  The string
 * \return   Length of string
 */
size_t utf8_length(const char *s);
 
/**
 * Calculated the length (in characters) of a bounded UTF-8 string
 *
 * \param s  The string
 * \param l  Maximum length of input (in bytes)
 * \return Length of string, in characters
 */
size_t utf8_bounded_length(const char *s, size_t l);
 
/**
 * Calculate the length (in bytes) of a bounded UTF-8 string
 *
 * \param s  The string
 * \param l  Maximum length of input (in bytes)
 * \param c  Maximum number of characters to measure
 * \return Length of string, in bytes
 */
size_t utf8_bounded_byte_length(const char *s, size_t l, size_t c);
 
/**
 * Calculate the length (in bytes) of a UTF-8 character
 *
 * \param s  Pointer to start of character
 * \return Length of character, in bytes
 */
size_t utf8_char_byte_length(const char *s);
 
 
/**
 * Find previous legal UTF-8 char in string
 *
 * \param s  The string
 * \param o  Offset in the string to start at
 * \return Offset of first byte of previous legal character
 */
size_t utf8_prev(const char *s, size_t o);
 
/**
 * Find next legal UTF-8 char in string
 *
 * \param s  The string
 * \param l  Maximum offset in string
 * \param o  Offset in the string to start at
 * \return Offset of first byte of next legal character
 */
size_t utf8_next(const char *s, size_t l, size_t o);
 
 
/**
 * Convert a UTF8 string into the named encoding
 *
 * \param string  The NULL-terminated string to convert
 * \param encname The encoding name (suitable for passing to iconv)
 * \param len     Length of input string to consider (in bytes), or 0
 * \param result  Pointer to location to store result (allocated on heap)
 * \return standard nserror value
 */
nserror utf8_to_enc(const char *string, const char *encname,
                size_t len, char **result);
 
/**
 * Convert a string in the named encoding into a UTF-8 string
 *
 * \param string  The NULL-terminated string to convert
 * \param encname The encoding name (suitable for passing to iconv)
 * \param len     Length of input string to consider (in bytes), or 0
 * \param result  Pointer to location to store result (allocated on heap)
 * \param result_len The length of the data placed in result.
 * \return standard nserror value
 */
nserror utf8_from_enc(const char *string, const char *encname,
                size_t len, char **result, size_t *result_len);
 
/**
 * Convert a UTF-8 encoded string into a string of the given encoding,
 * applying HTML escape sequences where necessary.
 *
 * \param string   String to convert (NUL-terminated)
 * \param encname  Name of encoding to convert to
 * \param len      Length, in bytes, of the input string, or 0
 * \param result   Pointer to location to receive result
 * \return standard nserror code
 */
nserror utf8_to_html(const char *string, const char *encname,
                size_t len, char **result);
 
/**
 * Save the given utf8 text to a file, converting to local encoding.
 *
 * \param  utf8_text    text to save to file
 * \param  path         pathname to save to
 * \return true iff the save succeeded
 */
bool utf8_save_text(const char *utf8_text, const char *path);
 
 
/**
 * Finalise the UTF-8 library
 */
nserror utf8_finalise(void);
 
#endif