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1 // © 2016 and later: Unicode, Inc. and others.
2 // License & terms of use: http://www.unicode.org/copyright.html
3 /*
4 ******************************************************************************
5 *
6 * Copyright (C) 1997-2014, International Business Machines
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"
30 /**
31 * \file
32 * \brief C API: Platform Utilities
33 */
34
35 /*==========================================================================*/
36 /* Platform utilities */
37 /*==========================================================================*/
38
39 /**
40 * Platform utilities isolates the platform dependencies of the
41 * library. For each platform which this code is ported to, these
42 * functions may have to be re-implemented.
43 */
44
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 specified at ICU build time
57 * <code>
58 * \code
59 * #define ICU_DATA_DIR "path"
60 * \endcode
61 * </code> use that,
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 */
69 U_STABLE const char* U_EXPORT2 u_getDataDirectory(void);
70
71
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 */
91 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2 u_setDataDirectory(const char *directory);
92
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 preferentially
97 * loaded from individual files in this directory.
98 *
99 * @return the time zone data override directory.
100 * @internal
101 */
102 U_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 */
112 U_INTERNAL void U_EXPORT2 u_setTimeZoneFilesDirectory(const char *path, UErrorCode *status);
113 #endif /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
114
115
116 /**
117 * @{
118 * Filesystem file and path separator characters.
119 * Example: '/' and ':' on Unix, '\\' and ';' on Windows.
120 * @stable ICU 2.0
121 */
122 #if U_PLATFORM_USES_ONLY_WIN32_API
123 # define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '\\'
124 # define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
125 # define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ';'
126 # define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "\\"
127 # define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
128 # define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ";"
129 #else
130 # define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '/'
131 # define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
132 # define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ':'
133 # define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "/"
134 # define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
135 # define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ":"
136 #endif
137
138 /** @} */
139
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.
146 * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
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>.
154 *
155 * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
156 * @stable ICU 2.0
157 */
158 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
159 u_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.
167 * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
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>.
176 *
177 * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
178 * @stable ICU 2.0
179 */
180 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
181 u_UCharsToChars(const UChar *us, char *cs, int32_t length);
182
183 #endif