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1 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
2 // Name: strconv.h
3 // Purpose: interface of wxMBConvUTF7
4 // Author: wxWidgets team
5 // RCS-ID: $Id$
6 // Licence: wxWindows license
7 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
8
9 /**
10 @class wxMBConvUTF7
11 @wxheader{strconv.h}
12
13 This class converts between the UTF-7 encoding and Unicode.
14 It has one predefined instance, @b wxConvUTF7.
15
16 @b WARNING: this class is not implemented yet.
17
18 @library{wxbase}
19 @category{FIXME}
20
21 @see wxMBConvUTF8, @ref overview_mbconvclasses "wxMBConv classes overview"
22 */
23 class wxMBConvUTF7 : public wxMBConv
24 {
25 public:
26 /**
27 Converts from UTF-7 encoding to Unicode. Returns the size of the destination
28 buffer.
29 */
30 size_t MB2WC(wchar_t* buf, const char* psz, size_t n) const;
31
32 /**
33 Converts from Unicode to UTF-7 encoding. Returns the size of the destination
34 buffer.
35 */
36 size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
37 };
38
39
40
41 /**
42 @class wxMBConvUTF8
43 @wxheader{strconv.h}
44
45 This class converts between the UTF-8 encoding and Unicode.
46 It has one predefined instance, @b wxConvUTF8.
47
48 @library{wxbase}
49 @category{FIXME}
50
51 @see wxMBConvUTF7, @ref overview_mbconvclasses "wxMBConv classes overview"
52 */
53 class wxMBConvUTF8 : public wxMBConv
54 {
55 public:
56 /**
57 Converts from UTF-8 encoding to Unicode. Returns the size of the destination
58 buffer.
59 */
60 size_t MB2WC(wchar_t* buf, const char* psz, size_t n) const;
61
62 /**
63 Converts from Unicode to UTF-8 encoding. Returns the size of the destination
64 buffer.
65 */
66 size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
67 };
68
69
70
71 /**
72 @class wxMBConvUTF16
73 @wxheader{strconv.h}
74
75 This class is used to convert between multibyte encodings and UTF-16 Unicode
76 encoding (also known as UCS-2). Unlike UTF-8() encoding,
77 UTF-16 uses words and not bytes and hence depends on the byte ordering:
78 big or little endian. Hence this class is provided in two versions:
79 wxMBConvUTF16LE and wxMBConvUTF16BE and wxMBConvUTF16 itself is just a typedef
80 for one of them (native for the given platform, e.g. LE under Windows and BE
81 under Mac).
82
83 @library{wxbase}
84 @category{FIXME}
85
86 @see wxMBConvUTF8, wxMBConvUTF32, @ref overview_mbconvclasses "wxMBConv classes
87 overview"
88 */
89 class wxMBConvUTF16 : public wxMBConv
90 {
91 public:
92 /**
93 Converts from UTF-16 encoding to Unicode. Returns the size of the destination
94 buffer.
95 */
96 size_t MB2WC(wchar_t* buf, const char* psz, size_t n) const;
97
98 /**
99 Converts from Unicode to UTF-16 encoding. Returns the size of the destination
100 buffer.
101 */
102 size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
103 };
104
105
106
107 /**
108 @class wxCSConv
109 @wxheader{strconv.h}
110
111 This class converts between any character sets and Unicode.
112 It has one predefined instance, @b wxConvLocal, for the
113 default user character set.
114
115 @library{wxbase}
116 @category{FIXME}
117
118 @see wxMBConv, wxEncodingConverter, @ref overview_mbconvclasses "wxMBConv
119 classes overview"
120 */
121 class wxCSConv : public wxMBConv
122 {
123 public:
124 //@{
125 /**
126 Constructor. You may specify either the name of the character set you want to
127 convert from/to or an encoding constant. If the character set name (or the
128 encoding) is not recognized, ISO 8859-1 is used as fall back.
129 */
130 wxCSConv(const wxChar* charset);
131 wxCSConv(wxFontEncoding encoding);
132 //@}
133
134 /**
135 Destructor frees any resources needed to perform the conversion.
136 */
137 ~wxCSConv();
138
139 /**
140 Returns @true if the charset (or the encoding) given at constructor is really
141 available to use. Returns @false if ISO 8859-1 will be used instead.
142 Note this does not mean that a given string will be correctly converted.
143 A malformed string may still make conversion functions return @c wxCONV_FAILED.
144
145 @since 2.8.2
146 */
147 bool IsOk() const;
148
149 /**
150 Converts from the selected character set to Unicode. Returns length of string
151 written to destination buffer.
152 */
153 size_t MB2WC(wchar_t* buf, const char* psz, size_t n) const;
154
155 /**
156 Converts from Unicode to the selected character set. Returns length of string
157 written to destination buffer.
158 */
159 size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
160 };
161
162
163
164 /**
165 @class wxMBConvFile
166 @wxheader{strconv.h}
167
168 This class used to define the class instance
169 @b wxConvFileName, but nowadays @b wxConvFileName is
170 either of type wxConvLibc (on most platforms) or wxConvUTF8
171 (on MacOS X). @b wxConvFileName converts filenames between
172 filesystem multibyte encoding and Unicode. @b wxConvFileName
173 can also be set to a something else at run-time which is used
174 e.g. by wxGTK to use a class which checks the environment
175 variable @b G_FILESYSTEM_ENCODING indicating that filenames
176 should not be interpreted as UTF8 and also for converting
177 invalid UTF8 characters (e.g. if there is a filename in iso8859_1)
178 to strings with octal values.
179
180 Since some platforms (such as Win32) use Unicode in the filenames,
181 and others (such as Unix) use multibyte encodings, this class should only
182 be used directly if wxMBFILES is defined to 1. A convenience macro,
183 wxFNCONV, is defined to wxConvFileName-cWX2MB in this case. You could
184 use it like this:
185
186 @code
187 wxChar *name = wxT("rawfile.doc");
188 FILE *fil = fopen(wxFNCONV(name), "r");
189 @endcode
190
191 (although it would be better to use wxFopen(name, wxT("r")) in this case.)
192
193 @library{wxbase}
194 @category{FIXME}
195
196 @see @ref overview_mbconvclasses "wxMBConv classes overview"
197 */
198 class wxMBConvFile : public wxMBConv
199 {
200 public:
201 /**
202 Converts from multibyte filename encoding to Unicode. Returns the size of the
203 destination buffer.
204 */
205 size_t MB2WC(wchar_t* buf, const char* psz, size_t n) const;
206
207 /**
208 Converts from Unicode to multibyte filename encoding. Returns the size of the
209 destination buffer.
210 */
211 size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
212 };
213
214
215
216 /**
217 @class wxMBConvUTF32
218 @wxheader{strconv.h}
219
220 This class is used to convert between multibyte encodings and UTF-32 Unicode
221 encoding (also known as UCS-4). Unlike UTF-8() encoding,
222 UTF-32 uses (double) words and not bytes and hence depends on the byte ordering:
223 big or little endian. Hence this class is provided in two versions:
224 wxMBConvUTF32LE and wxMBConvUTF32BE and wxMBConvUTF32 itself is just a typedef
225 for one of them (native for the given platform, e.g. LE under Windows and BE
226 under Mac).
227
228 @library{wxbase}
229 @category{FIXME}
230
231 @see wxMBConvUTF8, wxMBConvUTF16, @ref overview_mbconvclasses "wxMBConv classes
232 overview"
233 */
234 class wxMBConvUTF32 : public wxMBConv
235 {
236 public:
237 /**
238 Converts from UTF-32 encoding to Unicode. Returns the size of the destination
239 buffer.
240 */
241 size_t MB2WC(wchar_t* buf, const char* psz, size_t n) const;
242
243 /**
244 Converts from Unicode to UTF-32 encoding. Returns the size of the destination
245 buffer.
246 */
247 size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
248 };
249
250
251
252 /**
253 @class wxMBConv
254 @wxheader{strconv.h}
255
256 This class is the base class of a hierarchy of classes capable of converting
257 text strings between multibyte (SBCS or DBCS) encodings and Unicode.
258
259 In the documentation for this and related classes please notice that
260 length of the string refers to the number of characters in the string
261 not counting the terminating @c NUL, if any. While the size of the string
262 is the total number of bytes in the string, including any trailing @c NUL.
263 Thus, length of wide character string @c L"foo" is 3 while its size can
264 be either 8 or 16 depending on whether @c wchar_t is 2 bytes (as
265 under Windows) or 4 (Unix).
266
267 @library{wxbase}
268 @category{FIXME}
269
270 @see wxCSConv, wxEncodingConverter, @ref overview_mbconvclasses "wxMBConv
271 classes overview"
272 */
273 class wxMBConv
274 {
275 public:
276 /**
277 Trivial default constructor.
278 */
279 wxMBConv();
280
281 /**
282 This pure virtual function is overridden in each of the derived classes to
283 return a new copy of the object it is called on. It is used for copying the
284 conversion objects while preserving their dynamic type.
285 */
286 virtual wxMBConv* Clone() const;
287
288 /**
289 This function has the same semantics as ToWChar()
290 except that it converts a wide string to multibyte one.
291 */
292 virtual size_t FromWChar(char* dst, size_t dstLen,
293 const wchar_t* src,
294 size_t srcLen = wxNO_LEN) const;
295
296 /**
297 This function returns 1 for most of the multibyte encodings in which the
298 string is terminated by a single @c NUL, 2 for UTF-16 and 4 for UTF-32 for
299 which the string is terminated with 2 and 4 @c NUL characters respectively.
300 The other cases are not currently supported and @c wxCONV_FAILED
301 (defined as -1) is returned for them.
302 */
303 size_t GetMBNulLen() const;
304
305 /**
306 Returns the maximal value which can be returned by
307 GetMBNulLen() for any conversion object. Currently
308 this value is 4.
309 This method can be used to allocate the buffer with enough space for the
310 trailing @c NUL characters for any encoding.
311 */
312 const size_t GetMaxMBNulLen();
313
314 /**
315 This function is deprecated, please use ToWChar() instead
316 Converts from a string @a in in multibyte encoding to Unicode putting up to
317 @a outLen characters into the buffer @e out.
318 If @a out is @NULL, only the length of the string which would result from
319 the conversion is calculated and returned. Note that this is the length and not
320 size, i.e. the returned value does not include the trailing @c NUL. But
321 when the function is called with a non-@NULL @a out buffer, the @a outLen
322 parameter should be one more to allow to properly @c NUL-terminate the string.
323
324 @param out
325 The output buffer, may be @NULL if the caller is only
326 interested in the length of the resulting string
327 @param in
328 The NUL-terminated input string, cannot be @NULL
329 @param outLen
330 The length of the output buffer but including
331 NUL, ignored if out is @NULL
332
333 @returns The length of the converted string excluding the trailing NUL.
334 */
335 virtual size_t MB2WC(wchar_t* out, const char* in,
336 size_t outLen) const;
337
338 /**
339 The most general function for converting a multibyte string to a wide string.
340 The main case is when @a dst is not @NULL and @a srcLen is not
341 @c wxNO_LEN (which is defined as @c (size_t)-1): then
342 the function converts exactly @a srcLen bytes starting at @a src into
343 wide string which it output to @e dst. If the length of the resulting wide
344 string is greater than @e dstLen, an error is returned. Note that if
345 @a srcLen bytes don't include @c NUL characters, the resulting wide string is
346 not @c NUL-terminated neither.
347 If @a srcLen is @c wxNO_LEN, the function supposes that the string is
348 properly (i.e. as necessary for the encoding handled by this conversion)
349 @c NUL-terminated and converts the entire string, including any trailing @c NUL
350 bytes. In this case the wide string is also @c NUL-terminated.
351 Finally, if @a dst is @NULL, the function returns the length of the needed
352 buffer.
353 */
354 virtual size_t ToWChar(wchar_t* dst, size_t dstLen,
355 const char* src,
356 size_t srcLen = wxNO_LEN) const;
357
358 /**
359 This function is deprecated, please use FromWChar() instead
360 Converts from Unicode to multibyte encoding. The semantics of this function
361 (including the return value meaning) is the same as for
362 wxMBConv::MB2WC.
363 Notice that when the function is called with a non-@NULL buffer, the
364 @a n parameter should be the size of the buffer and so it should take
365 into account the trailing @c NUL, which might take two or four bytes for some
366 encodings (UTF-16 and UTF-32) and not one.
367 */
368 virtual size_t WC2MB(char* buf, const wchar_t* psz, size_t n) const;
369
370 //@{
371 /**
372 Converts from multibyte encoding to Unicode by calling
373 wxMBConv::MB2WC, allocating a temporary wxWCharBuffer to hold
374 the result.
375 The first overload takes a @c NUL-terminated input string. The second one takes
376 a
377 string of exactly the specified length and the string may include or not the
378 trailing @c NUL character(s). If the string is not @c NUL-terminated, a
379 temporary
380 @c NUL-terminated copy of it suitable for passing to wxMBConv::MB2WC
381 is made, so it is more efficient to ensure that the string is does have the
382 appropriate number of @c NUL bytes (which is usually 1 but may be 2 or 4
383 for UTF-16 or UTF-32, see wxMBConv::GetMBNulLen),
384 especially for long strings.
385 If @a outLen is not-@NULL, it receives the length of the converted
386 string.
387 */
388 const wxWCharBuffer cMB2WC(const char* in) const;
389 const const wxWCharBuffer cMB2WC(const char* in,
390 size_t inLen,
391 size_t outLen) const;
392 //@}
393
394 //@{
395 /**
396 Converts from multibyte encoding to the current wxChar type
397 (which depends on whether wxUSE_UNICODE is set to 1). If wxChar is char,
398 it returns the parameter unaltered. If wxChar is wchar_t, it returns the
399 result in a wxWCharBuffer. The macro wxMB2WXbuf is defined as the correct
400 return type (without const).
401 */
402 const char* cMB2WX(const char* psz) const;
403 const const wxWCharBuffer cMB2WX(const char* psz) const;
404 //@}
405
406 //@{
407 /**
408 Converts from Unicode to multibyte encoding by calling WC2MB,
409 allocating a temporary wxCharBuffer to hold the result.
410 The second overload of this function allows to convert a string of the given
411 length @e inLen, whether it is @c NUL-terminated or not (for wide character
412 strings, unlike for the multibyte ones, a single @c NUL is always enough).
413 But notice that just as with @ref wxMBConv::mb2wc cMB2WC, it is more
414 efficient to pass an already terminated string to this function as otherwise a
415 copy is made internally.
416 If @a outLen is not-@NULL, it receives the length of the converted
417 string.
418 */
419 const wxCharBuffer cWC2MB(const wchar_t* in) const;
420 const const wxCharBuffer cWC2MB(const wchar_t* in,
421 size_t inLen,
422 size_t outLen) const;
423 //@}
424
425 //@{
426 /**
427 Converts from Unicode to the current wxChar type. If wxChar is wchar_t,
428 it returns the parameter unaltered. If wxChar is char, it returns the
429 result in a wxCharBuffer. The macro wxWC2WXbuf is defined as the correct
430 return type (without const).
431 */
432 const wchar_t* cWC2WX(const wchar_t* psz) const;
433 const const wxCharBuffer cWC2WX(const wchar_t* psz) const;
434 //@}
435
436 //@{
437 /**
438 Converts from the current wxChar type to multibyte encoding. If wxChar is char,
439 it returns the parameter unaltered. If wxChar is wchar_t, it returns the
440 result in a wxCharBuffer. The macro wxWX2MBbuf is defined as the correct
441 return type (without const).
442 */
443 const char* cWX2MB(const wxChar* psz) const;
444 const const wxCharBuffer cWX2MB(const wxChar* psz) const;
445 //@}
446
447 //@{
448 /**
449 Converts from the current wxChar type to Unicode. If wxChar is wchar_t,
450 it returns the parameter unaltered. If wxChar is char, it returns the
451 result in a wxWCharBuffer. The macro wxWX2WCbuf is defined as the correct
452 return type (without const).
453 */
454 const wchar_t* cWX2WC(const wxChar* psz) const;
455 const const wxWCharBuffer cWX2WC(const wxChar* psz) const;
456 //@}
457 };
458