icuSources/common/unicode/putil.h

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