1 /* Recode strings between character sets, using iconv.
2 Copyright (C) 2002, 2003, 2004, 2005 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
5 modify it under the terms of the GNU Lesser General Public License as
6 published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2.1, or (at
7 your option) any later version.
9 This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
12 GNU Lesser General Public License for more details.
14 You should have received a copy of the GNU Lesser General Public License along
15 with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation,
16 Inc., 59 Temple Place - Suite 330, Boston, MA 02111-1307, USA. */
44 /* Get MB_LEN_MAX, CHAR_BIT. */
49 # define SIZE_MAX ((size_t) -1)
52 /* Convert a zero-terminated string STR from the FROM_CODSET code set
53 to the TO_CODESET code set. The returned string is allocated using
54 malloc, and must be dellocated by the caller using free. On
55 failure, NULL is returned and errno holds the error reason. Note
56 that if TO_CODESET uses \0 for anything but to terminate the
57 string, the caller of this function may have difficulties finding
58 out the length of the output string. */
60 iconv_string (const char *str
, const char *from_codeset
,
61 const char *to_codeset
)
67 char *p
= (char *) str
;
68 size_t inbytes_remaining
= strlen (p
);
69 /* Guess the maximum length the output string can have. */
70 size_t outbuf_size
= inbytes_remaining
+ 1;
71 size_t outbytes_remaining
;
75 /* Use a worst-case output size guess, so long as that wouldn't be
76 too large for comfort. It's OK if the guess is wrong so long as
78 size_t approx_sqrt_SIZE_MAX
= SIZE_MAX
>> (sizeof (size_t) * CHAR_BIT
/ 2);
79 if (outbuf_size
<= approx_sqrt_SIZE_MAX
/ MB_LEN_MAX
)
80 outbuf_size
*= MB_LEN_MAX
;
81 outbytes_remaining
= outbuf_size
- 1;
84 if (strcmp (to_codeset
, from_codeset
) == 0)
88 cd
= iconv_open (to_codeset
, from_codeset
);
89 if (cd
== (iconv_t
) -1)
92 outp
= dest
= (char *) malloc (outbuf_size
);
97 err
= iconv (cd
, &p
, &inbytes_remaining
, &outp
, &outbytes_remaining
);
99 if (err
== (size_t) - 1)
104 /* Incomplete text, do not report an error */
109 size_t used
= outp
- dest
;
110 size_t newsize
= outbuf_size
* 2;
113 if (newsize
<= outbuf_size
)
119 newdest
= (char *) realloc (dest
, newsize
);
126 outbuf_size
= newsize
;
129 outbytes_remaining
= outbuf_size
- used
- 1; /* -1 for NUL */
149 int save_errno
= errno
;
151 if (iconv_close (cd
) < 0 && !have_error
)
153 /* If we didn't have a real error before, make sure we restore
154 the iconv_close error below. */
159 if (have_error
&& dest
)