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1/*
2******************************************************************************
3*
93a37866 4* Copyright (C) 1997-2009, International Business Machines
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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"
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28 /**
29 * \file
30 * \brief C API: Platform Utilities
31 */
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93a37866 33/** Define this to 1 if your platform supports IEEE 754 floating point,
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34 to 0 if it does not. */
35#ifndef IEEE_754
36# define IEEE_754 1
37#endif
38
39/*==========================================================================*/
40/* Platform utilities */
41/*==========================================================================*/
42
43/**
44 * Platform utilities isolates the platform dependencies of the
45 * libarary. For each platform which this code is ported to, these
46 * functions may have to be re-implemented.
47 */
48
49/**
50 * Return the ICU data directory.
51 * The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files)
52 * are loaded from. Note that normal use of the built-in ICU
53 * facilities does not require loading of an external data file;
54 * unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory
55 * does not need to be set.
56 *
57 * The data directory is determined as follows:
58 * If u_setDataDirectory() has been called, that is it, otherwise
59 * if the ICU_DATA environment variable is set, use that, otherwise
60 * If a data directory was specifed at ICU build time
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61 * <code>
62 * \code
63 * #define ICU_DATA_DIR "path"
64 * \endcode
65 * </code> use that,
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66 * otherwise no data directory is available.
67 *
68 * @return the data directory, or an empty string ("") if no data directory has
69 * been specified.
70 *
71 * @stable ICU 2.0
72 */
73U_STABLE const char* U_EXPORT2 u_getDataDirectory(void);
74
75/**
76 * Set the ICU data directory.
77 * The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files)
78 * are loaded from. Note that normal use of the built-in ICU
79 * facilities does not require loading of an external data file;
80 * unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory
81 * does not need to be set.
82 *
83 * This function should be called at most once in a process, before the
84 * first ICU operation (e.g., u_init()) that will require the loading of an
85 * ICU data file.
86 * This function is not thread-safe. Use it before calling ICU APIs from
87 * multiple threads.
88 *
89 * @param directory The directory to be set.
90 *
91 * @see u_init
92 * @stable ICU 2.0
93 */
94U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2 u_setDataDirectory(const char *directory);
95
93a37866 96#if !U_CHARSET_IS_UTF8
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97/**
98 * Please use ucnv_getDefaultName() instead.
99 * Return the default codepage for this platform and locale.
100 * This function can call setlocale() on Unix platforms. Please read the
101 * platform documentation on setlocale() before calling this function.
102 * @return the default codepage for this platform
103 * @internal
104 */
105U_INTERNAL const char* U_EXPORT2 uprv_getDefaultCodepage(void);
93a37866 106#endif
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107
108/**
109 * Please use uloc_getDefault() instead.
110 * Return the default locale ID string by querying ths system, or
111 * zero if one cannot be found.
112 * This function can call setlocale() on Unix platforms. Please read the
113 * platform documentation on setlocale() before calling this function.
114 * @return the default locale ID string
115 * @internal
116 */
117U_INTERNAL const char* U_EXPORT2 uprv_getDefaultLocaleID(void);
118
119/**
93a37866 120 * @{
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121 * Filesystem file and path separator characters.
122 * Example: '/' and ':' on Unix, '\\' and ';' on Windows.
123 * @stable ICU 2.0
124 */
125#ifdef XP_MAC
126# define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR ':'
127# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR ':'
128# define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ';'
129# define U_FILE_SEP_STRING ":"
130# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING ":"
131# define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ";"
132#elif defined(WIN32) || defined(OS2)
133# define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '\\'
134# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
135# define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ';'
136# define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "\\"
137# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
138# define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ";"
139#else
140# define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '/'
141# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
142# define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ':'
143# define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "/"
144# define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
145# define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ":"
146#endif
147
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148/** @} */
149
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150/**
151 * Convert char characters to UChar characters.
152 * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
153 * that are encoded in the platform default encoding.
154 * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
155 * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
156 * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
157 *
158 * @param cs Input string, points to <code>length</code>
159 * character bytes from a subset of the platform encoding.
160 * @param us Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
161 * Unicode characters.
162 * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
163 * include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
164 *
165 * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
166 * @stable ICU 2.0
167 */
168U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
169u_charsToUChars(const char *cs, UChar *us, int32_t length);
170
171/**
172 * Convert UChar characters to char characters.
173 * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
174 * that can be encoded in the platform default encoding.
175 * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
176 * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
177 * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
178 *
179 * @param us Input string, points to <code>length</code>
180 * Unicode characters that can be encoded with the
181 * codepage-invariant subset of the platform encoding.
182 * @param cs Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
183 * character bytes.
184 * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
185 * include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
186 *
187 * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
188 * @stable ICU 2.0
189 */
190U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
191u_UCharsToChars(const UChar *us, char *cs, int32_t length);
192
193#endif