1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
5 #ifndef BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
6 #define BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
10 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
11 #include "base/i18n/base_i18n_export.h"
12 #include "base/string16.h"
13 #include "build/build_config.h"
20 const char16 kRightToLeftMark
= 0x200F;
21 const char16 kLeftToRightMark
= 0x200E;
22 const char16 kLeftToRightEmbeddingMark
= 0x202A;
23 const char16 kRightToLeftEmbeddingMark
= 0x202B;
24 const char16 kPopDirectionalFormatting
= 0x202C;
25 const char16 kLeftToRightOverride
= 0x202D;
26 const char16 kRightToLeftOverride
= 0x202E;
34 // Get the locale that the currently running process has been configured to use.
35 // The return value is of the form language[-country] (e.g., en-US) where the
36 // language is the 2 or 3 letter code from ISO-639.
37 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
std::string
GetConfiguredLocale();
39 // Canonicalize a string (eg. a POSIX locale string) to a Chrome locale name.
40 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
std::string
GetCanonicalLocale(const char* locale
);
42 // Sets the default locale of ICU.
43 // Once the application locale of Chrome in GetApplicationLocale is determined,
44 // the default locale of ICU need to be changed to match the application locale
45 // so that ICU functions work correctly in a locale-dependent manner.
46 // This is handy in that we don't have to call GetApplicationLocale()
47 // everytime we call locale-dependent ICU APIs as long as we make sure
48 // that this is called before any locale-dependent API is called.
49 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
void SetICUDefaultLocale(const std::string
& locale_string
);
51 // Returns true if the application text direction is right-to-left.
52 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
bool IsRTL();
54 // Returns whether the text direction for the default ICU locale is RTL. This
55 // assumes that SetICUDefaultLocale has been called to set the default locale to
56 // the UI locale of Chrome.
57 // NOTE: Generally, you should call IsRTL() instead of this.
58 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
bool ICUIsRTL();
60 // Returns the text direction for |locale_name|.
61 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection
GetTextDirectionForLocale(
62 const char* locale_name
);
64 // Given the string in |text|, returns the directionality of the first
65 // character with strong directionality in the string. If no character in the
66 // text has strong directionality, LEFT_TO_RIGHT is returned. The Bidi
67 // character types L, LRE, LRO, R, AL, RLE, and RLO are considered as strong
68 // directionality characters. Please refer to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
69 // for more information.
70 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection
GetFirstStrongCharacterDirection(
71 const string16
& text
);
73 // Given the string in |text|, this function modifies the string in place with
74 // the appropriate Unicode formatting marks that mark the string direction
75 // (either left-to-right or right-to-left). The function checks both the current
76 // locale and the contents of the string in order to determine the direction of
77 // the returned string. The function returns true if the string in |text| was
80 // Certain LTR strings are not rendered correctly when the context is RTL. For
81 // example, the string "Foo!" will appear as "!Foo" if it is rendered as is in
82 // an RTL context. Calling this function will make sure the returned localized
83 // string is always treated as a right-to-left string. This is done by
84 // inserting certain Unicode formatting marks into the returned string.
86 // ** Notes about the Windows version of this function:
87 // TODO(idana) bug 6806: this function adjusts the string in question only
88 // if the current locale is right-to-left. The function does not take care of
89 // the opposite case (an RTL string displayed in an LTR context) since
90 // adjusting the string involves inserting Unicode formatting characters that
91 // Windows does not handle well unless right-to-left language support is
92 // installed. Since the English version of Windows doesn't have right-to-left
93 // language support installed by default, inserting the direction Unicode mark
94 // results in Windows displaying squares.
95 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
bool AdjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16
* text
);
97 // Undoes the actions of the above function (AdjustStringForLocaleDirection).
98 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
bool UnadjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16
* text
);
100 // Returns true if the string contains at least one character with strong right
101 // to left directionality; that is, a character with either R or AL Unicode
102 // BiDi character type.
103 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
bool StringContainsStrongRTLChars(const string16
& text
);
105 // Wraps a string with an LRE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
106 // Left-To-Right string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure LTR
107 // strings are rendered properly in an RTL context.
108 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
void WrapStringWithLTRFormatting(string16
* text
);
110 // Wraps a string with an RLE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
111 // Right-To-Left string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure RTL
112 // strings are rendered properly in an LTR context.
113 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
void WrapStringWithRTLFormatting(string16
* text
);
115 // Wraps file path to get it to display correctly in RTL UI. All filepaths
116 // should be passed through this function before display in UI for RTL locales.
117 BASE_I18N_EXPORT
void WrapPathWithLTRFormatting(const FilePath
& path
,
118 string16
* rtl_safe_path
);
120 // Return the string in |text| wrapped with LRE (Left-To-Right Embedding) and
121 // PDF (Pop Directional Formatting) marks, if needed for UI display purposes.
122 BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16
GetDisplayStringInLTRDirectionality(
123 const string16
& text
) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
125 // Strip the beginning (U+202A..U+202B, U+202D..U+202E) and/or ending (U+202C)
126 // explicit bidi control characters from |text|, if there are any. Otherwise,
127 // return the text itself. Explicit bidi control characters display and have
128 // semantic effect. They can be deleted so they might not always appear in a
130 BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16
StripWrappingBidiControlCharacters(
131 const string16
& text
) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT
;
136 #endif // BASE_I18N_RTL_H_