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1// © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
2// License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
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3/*
4******************************************************************************
5*
b331163b 6* Copyright (C) 1997-2014, International Business Machines
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7* Corporation and others. All Rights Reserved.
8*
9******************************************************************************
10*
11* FILE NAME : putil.h
12*
13* Date Name Description
14* 05/14/98 nos Creation (content moved here from utypes.h).
15* 06/17/99 erm Added IEEE_754
16* 07/22/98 stephen Added IEEEremainder, max, min, trunc
17* 08/13/98 stephen Added isNegativeInfinity, isPositiveInfinity
18* 08/24/98 stephen Added longBitsFromDouble
19* 03/02/99 stephen Removed openFile(). Added AS400 support.
20* 04/15/99 stephen Converted to C
21* 11/15/99 helena Integrated S/390 changes for IEEE support.
22* 01/11/00 helena Added u_getVersion.
23******************************************************************************
24*/
25
26#ifndef PUTIL_H
27#define PUTIL_H
28
29#include "unicode/utypes.h"
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30 /**
31 * \file
32 * \brief C API: Platform Utilities
33 */
729e4ab9 34
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35/*==========================================================================*/
36/* Platform utilities */
37/*==========================================================================*/
38
39/**
40 * Platform utilities isolates the platform dependencies of the
41 * libarary. For each platform which this code is ported to, these
42 * functions may have to be re-implemented.
43 */
44
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45/**
46 * Return the ICU data directory.
47 * The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files)
48 * are loaded from. Note that normal use of the built-in ICU
49 * facilities does not require loading of an external data file;
50 * unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory
51 * does not need to be set.
52 *
53 * The data directory is determined as follows:
54 * If u_setDataDirectory() has been called, that is it, otherwise
55 * if the ICU_DATA environment variable is set, use that, otherwise
56 * If a data directory was specifed at ICU build time
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57 * <code>
58 * \code
59 * #define ICU_DATA_DIR "path"
60 * \endcode
61 * </code> use that,
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62 * otherwise no data directory is available.
63 *
64 * @return the data directory, or an empty string ("") if no data directory has
65 * been specified.
66 *
67 * @stable ICU 2.0
68 */
374ca955 69U_STABLE const char* U_EXPORT2 u_getDataDirectory(void);
b75a7d8f 70
b331163b 71
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72/**
73 * Set the ICU data directory.
74 * The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files)
75 * are loaded from. Note that normal use of the built-in ICU
76 * facilities does not require loading of an external data file;
77 * unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory
78 * does not need to be set.
79 *
80 * This function should be called at most once in a process, before the
81 * first ICU operation (e.g., u_init()) that will require the loading of an
82 * ICU data file.
83 * This function is not thread-safe. Use it before calling ICU APIs from
84 * multiple threads.
85 *
86 * @param directory The directory to be set.
87 *
88 * @see u_init
89 * @stable ICU 2.0
90 */
374ca955 91U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2 u_setDataDirectory(const char *directory);
b75a7d8f 92
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93#ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
94/**
95 * Return the time zone files override directory, or an empty string if
96 * no directory was specified. Certain time zone resources will be preferrentially
97 * loaded from individual files in this directory.
98 *
99 * @return the time zone data override directory.
100 * @internal
101 */
102U_INTERNAL const char * U_EXPORT2 u_getTimeZoneFilesDirectory(UErrorCode *status);
103
104/**
105 * Set the time zone files override directory.
106 * This function is not thread safe; it must not be called concurrently with
107 * u_getTimeZoneFilesDirectory() or any other use of ICU time zone functions.
108 * This function should only be called before using any ICU service that
109 * will access the time zone data.
110 * @internal
111 */
112U_INTERNAL void U_EXPORT2 u_setTimeZoneFilesDirectory(const char *path, UErrorCode *status);
113#endif /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
114
115
b75a7d8f 116/**
729e4ab9 117 * @{
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118 * Filesystem file and path separator characters.
119 * Example: '/' and ':' on Unix, '\\' and ';' on Windows.
120 * @stable ICU 2.0
121 */
b331163b 122#if U_PLATFORM_USES_ONLY_WIN32_API
b75a7d8f 123# define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '\\'
374ca955 124# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
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125# define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ';'
126# define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "\\"
374ca955 127# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
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128# define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ";"
129#else
130# define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '/'
374ca955 131# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
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132# define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ':'
133# define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "/"
374ca955 134# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
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135# define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ":"
136#endif
137
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138/** @} */
139
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140/**
141 * Convert char characters to UChar characters.
142 * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
143 * that are encoded in the platform default encoding.
144 * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
145 * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
374ca955 146 * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
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147 *
148 * @param cs Input string, points to <code>length</code>
149 * character bytes from a subset of the platform encoding.
150 * @param us Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
151 * Unicode characters.
152 * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
153 * include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
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154 *
155 * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
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156 * @stable ICU 2.0
157 */
374ca955 158U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
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159u_charsToUChars(const char *cs, UChar *us, int32_t length);
160
161/**
162 * Convert UChar characters to char characters.
163 * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
164 * that can be encoded in the platform default encoding.
165 * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
166 * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
374ca955 167 * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
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168 *
169 * @param us Input string, points to <code>length</code>
170 * Unicode characters that can be encoded with the
171 * codepage-invariant subset of the platform encoding.
172 * @param cs Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
173 * character bytes.
174 * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
175 * include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
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176 *
177 * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
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178 * @stable ICU 2.0
179 */
374ca955 180U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
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181u_UCharsToChars(const UChar *us, char *cs, int32_t length);
182
b75a7d8f 183#endif