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[wxWidgets.git] / interface / wx / unichar.h

diff --git a/interface/wx/unichar.h b/interface/wx/unichar.h
index 4866c1c11de1fd2a8f24be4ddcee7043062e9b5b..e37338f9d0a4c7559217f3787d2389e7bd98c3aa 100644 (file)
--- a/interface/wx/unichar.h
+++ b/interface/wx/unichar.h
@@ -3,7 +3,7 @@
 // Purpose:     interface of wxUniChar
 // Author:      wxWidgets team
 // RCS-ID:      $Id$
-// Licence:     wxWindows license
+// Licence:     wxWindows licence
 /////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
 
 /**
@@ -33,7 +33,7 @@ public:
     //@{
     /**
         Create a character from the 8-bit character value @a c using the
-        current locale’s encoding.
+        current locale encoding.
     */
     wxUniChar(char c);
     wxUniChar(unsigned char c);
@@ -58,6 +58,30 @@ public:
     */
     bool IsAscii() const;
 
+    /**
+        Returns true if the character is representable as a single byte in the
+        current locale encoding.
+
+        This function only returns true if the character can be converted in
+        exactly one byte, e.g. it only returns true for 7 bit ASCII characters
+        when the encoding used is UTF-8.
+
+        It is mostly useful to test if the character can be passed to functions
+        taking a char and is used by wxWidgets itself for this purpose.
+
+        @param c
+            An output pointer to the value of this Unicode character as a @c
+            char. Must be non-@NULL.
+        @return
+            @true if the object is an 8 bit char and @a c was filled with its
+            value as char or @false otherwise (@a c won't be modified then).
+
+        @see IsAscii()
+
+        @since 2.9.1
+     */
+    bool GetAsChar(char *c) const;
+
     //@{
     /**
         Conversions to char and wchar_t types: all of those are needed to be