// Purpose: interface of wxConvAuto
// Author: wxWidgets team
// RCS-ID: $Id$
-// Licence: wxWindows license
+// Licence: wxWindows licence
/////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////
+/**
+ Constants representing various BOM types.
+
+ BOM is an abbreviation for "Byte Order Mark", a special Unicode character
+ which may be inserted into the beginning of a text stream to indicate its
+ encoding.
+
+ @since 2.9.3
+ */
+enum wxBOM
+{
+ /**
+ Unknown BOM.
+
+ This is returned if BOM presence couldn't be determined and normally
+ happens because not enough bytes of input have been analysed.
+ */
+ wxBOM_Unknown = -1,
+
+ /**
+ No BOM.
+
+ The stream doesn't contain BOM character at all.
+ */
+ wxBOM_None,
+
+ /**
+ UTF-32 big endian BOM.
+
+ The stream is encoded in big endian variant of UTF-32.
+ */
+ wxBOM_UTF32BE,
+
+ /**
+ UTF-32 little endian BOM.
+
+ The stream is encoded in little endian variant of UTF-32.
+ */
+ wxBOM_UTF32LE,
+
+ /**
+ UTF-16 big endian BOM.
+
+ The stream is encoded in big endian variant of UTF-16.
+ */
+ wxBOM_UTF16BE,
+
+ /**
+ UTF-16 little endian BOM.
+
+ The stream is encoded in little endian variant of UTF-16.
+ */
+ wxBOM_UTF16LE,
+
+ /**
+ UTF-8 BOM.
+
+ The stream is encoded in UTF-8.
+
+ Notice that contrary to a popular belief, it's perfectly possible and,
+ n fact, common under Microsoft Windows systems, to have a BOM in an
+ UTF-8 stream: while it's not used to indicate the endianness of UTF-8
+ stream (as it's byte-oriented), the BOM can still be useful just as an
+ unambiguous indicator of UTF-8 being used.
+ */
+ wxBOM_UTF8
+};
+
/**
@class wxConvAuto
- @wxheader{convauto.h}
This class implements a Unicode to/from multibyte converter capable of
automatically recognizing the encoding of the multibyte text on input. The
*/
wxConvAuto(wxFontEncoding enc = wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT);
+
+ /**
+ Return the detected BOM type.
+
+ The BOM type is detected after sufficiently many initial bytes have
+ passed through this conversion object so it will always return
+ wxBOM_Unknown immediately after the object creation but may return a
+ different value later.
+
+ @since 2.9.3
+ */
+ wxBOM GetBOM() const;
+
+ /**
+ Return a pointer to the characters that makes up this BOM.
+
+ The returned character count is 2, 3 or 4, or undefined if the return
+ value is NULL.
+
+ @param bom
+ A valid BOM type, i.e. not wxBOM_Unknown or wxBOM_None.
+ @param count
+ A non-@NULL pointer receiving the number of characters in this BOM.
+ @return
+ Pointer to characters composing the BOM or @NULL if BOM is unknown
+ or invalid. Notice that the returned string is not NUL-terminated
+ and may contain embedded NULs so @a count must be used to handle it
+ correctly.
+
+ @since 2.9.3
+ */
+ const char* GetBOMChars(wxBOM bom, size_t* count);
+
/**
Disable the use of the fall back encoding: if the input doesn't have a
BOM and is not valid UTF-8, the conversion will fail.
@c wxFONTENCODING_DEFAULT can't be used here.
*/
static void SetFallbackEncoding(wxFontEncoding enc);
-};
+ /**
+ Return the BOM type of this buffer.
+
+ This is a helper function which is normally only used internally by
+ wxConvAuto but provided for convenience of the code that wants to
+ detect the encoding of a stream by checking it for BOM presence on its
+ own.
+
+ @since 2.9.3
+ */
+ static wxBOM DetectBOM(const char *src, size_t srcLen);
+};