Initial pass at adding unicode support functions. A few things still need
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1 /* gunicode.h - Unicode manipulation functions
3 * Copyright (C) 1999, 2000 Tom Tromey
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22 #ifndef __GUNICODE_H__
23 #define __GUNICODE_H__
25 #include <stdlib.h> /* For size_t */
27 #ifdef __cplusplus
28 extern "C"
30 #endif
32 typedef guint32 gunichar;
33 typedef guint16 gunichar2;
35 /* These are the possible character classifications. */
36 typedef enum {
37 G_UNICODE_CONTROL,
38 G_UNICODE_FORMAT,
39 G_UNICODE_UNASSIGNED,
40 G_UNICODE_PRIVATE_USE,
41 G_UNICODE_SURROGATE,
42 G_UNICODE_LOWERCASE_LETTER,
43 G_UNICODE_MODIFIER_LETTER,
44 G_UNICODE_OTHER_LETTER,
45 G_UNICODE_TITLECASE_LETTER,
46 G_UNICODE_UPPERCASE_LETTER,
47 G_UNICODE_COMBINING_MARK,
48 G_UNICODE_ENCLOSING_MARK,
49 G_UNICODE_NON_SPACING_MARK,
50 G_UNICODE_DECIMAL_NUMBER,
51 G_UNICODE_LETTER_NUMBER,
52 G_UNICODE_OTHER_NUMBER,
53 G_UNICODE_CONNECT_PUNCTUATION,
54 G_UNICODE_DASH_PUNCTUATION,
55 G_UNICODE_CLOSE_PUNCTUATION,
56 G_UNICODE_FINAL_PUNCTUATION,
57 G_UNICODE_INITIAL_PUNCTUATION,
58 G_UNICODE_OTHER_PUNCTUATION,
59 G_UNICODE_OPEN_PUNCTUATION,
60 G_UNICODE_CURRENCY_SYMBOL,
61 G_UNICODE_MODIFIER_SYMBOL,
62 G_UNICODE_MATH_SYMBOL,
63 G_UNICODE_OTHER_SYMBOL,
64 G_UNICODE_LINE_SEPARATOR,
65 G_UNICODE_PARAGRAPH_SEPARATOR,
66 G_UNICODE_SPACE_SEPARATOR
67 } GUnicodeType;
69 /* Returns TRUE if current locale uses UTF-8 charset. If CHARSET is
70 * not null, sets *CHARSET to the name of the current locale's
71 * charset. This value is statically allocated.
73 gboolean g_get_charset (char **charset);
75 /* These are all analogs of the <ctype.h> functions.
77 gboolean g_unichar_isalnum (gunichar c);
78 gboolean g_unichar_isalpha (gunichar c);
79 gboolean g_unichar_iscntrl (gunichar c);
80 gboolean g_unicphar_isdigit (gunichar c);
81 gboolean g_unichar_isgraph (gunichar c);
82 gboolean g_unichar_islower (gunichar c);
83 gboolean g_unichar_isprint (gunichar c);
84 gboolean g_unichar_ispunct (gunichar c);
85 gboolean g_unichar_isspace (gunichar c);
86 gboolean g_unichar_isupper (gunichar c);
87 gboolean g_unichar_isxdigit (gunichar c);
88 gboolean g_unichar_istitle (gunichar c);
89 gboolean g_unichar_isdefined (gunichar c);
90 gboolean g_unichar_iswide (gunichar c);
92 /* More <ctype.h> functions. These convert between the three cases.
93 * See the Unicode book to understand title case. */
94 gunichar g_unichar_toupper (gunichar c);
95 gunichar g_unichar_tolower (gunichar c);
96 gunichar g_unichar_totitle (gunichar c);
98 /* If C is a digit (according to `g_unichar_isdigit'), then return its
99 numeric value. Otherwise return -1. */
100 gint g_unichar_digit_value (gunichar c);
102 gint g_unichar_xdigit_value (gunichar c);
104 /* Return the Unicode character type of a given character. */
105 GUnicodeType g_unichar_type (gunichar c);
109 /* Compute canonical ordering of a string in-place. This rearranges
110 decomposed characters in the string according to their combining
111 classes. See the Unicode manual for more information. */
112 void g_unicode_canonical_ordering (gunichar *string,
113 size_t len);
115 /* Compute canonical decomposition of a character. Returns g_malloc()d
116 string of Unicode characters. RESULT_LEN is set to the resulting
117 length of the string. */
118 gunichar *g_unicode_canonical_decomposition (gunichar ch,
119 size_t *result_len);
121 /* Array of skip-bytes-per-initial character
123 extern char g_utf8_skip[256];
125 #define g_utf8_next_char(p) (char *)((p) + g_utf8_skip[*(guchar *)(p)])
127 gunichar g_utf8_get_char (const gchar *p);
128 gchar * g_utf8_offset_to_pointer (const gchar *str,
129 gint offset);
130 gint g_utf8_pointer_to_offset (const gchar *str,
131 const gchar *pos);
132 gchar * g_utf8_prev_char (const gchar *p);
133 gchar * g_utf8_find_next_char (const gchar *p,
134 const gchar *bound);
135 gchar * g_utf8_find_prev_char (const gchar *str,
136 const gchar *p);
138 gint g_utf8_strlen (const gchar *p,
139 gint max);
141 /* Copies n characters from src to dest */
142 gchar *g_utf8_strncpy (gchar *dest,
143 const gchar *src,
144 size_t n);
146 /* Find the UTF-8 character corresponding to ch, in string p. These
147 functions are equivalants to strchr and strrchr */
149 gchar *g_utf8_strchr (const gchar *p,
150 gunichar ch);
151 gchar *g_utf8_strrchr (const gchar *p,
152 gunichar ch);
154 gunichar2 *g_utf8_to_utf16 (const gchar *str,
155 gint len);
156 gunichar * g_utf8_to_ucs4 (const gchar *str,
157 gint len);
158 gunichar * g_utf16_to_ucs4 (const gunichar2 *str,
159 gint len);
160 gchar * g_utf16_to_utf8 (const gunichar2 *str,
161 gint len);
162 gunichar * g_ucs4_to_utf16 (const gunichar *str,
163 gint len);
164 gchar * g_ucs4_to_utf8 (const gunichar *str,
165 gint len);
167 /* Convert a single character into UTF-8. outbuf must have at
168 * least 6 bytes of space. Returns the number of bytes in the
169 * result.
171 gint g_unichar_to_utf8 (gunichar c,
172 char *outbuf);
174 #ifdef __cplusplus
176 #endif
178 #endif /* GUNICODE_H */