2011-03-24 Paolo Bonzini <bonzini@gnu.org>
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2 -- --
3 -- GNAT RUN-TIME COMPONENTS --
4 -- --
5 -- G N A T . E N C O D E _ S T R I N G --
6 -- --
7 -- S p e c --
8 -- --
9 -- Copyright (C) 2007-2008, AdaCore --
10 -- --
11 -- GNAT is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under --
12 -- terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Soft- --
13 -- ware Foundation; either version 2, or (at your option) any later ver- --
14 -- sion. GNAT is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITH- --
15 -- OUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY --
16 -- or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License --
17 -- for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General --
18 -- Public License distributed with GNAT; see file COPYING. If not, write --
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20 -- Boston, MA 02110-1301, USA. --
21 -- --
22 -- As a special exception, if other files instantiate generics from this --
23 -- unit, or you link this unit with other files to produce an executable, --
24 -- this unit does not by itself cause the resulting executable to be --
25 -- covered by the GNU General Public License. This exception does not --
26 -- however invalidate any other reasons why the executable file might be --
27 -- covered by the GNU Public License. --
28 -- --
29 -- GNAT was originally developed by the GNAT team at New York University. --
30 -- Extensive contributions were provided by Ada Core Technologies Inc. --
31 -- --
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34 -- This generic package provides utility routines for converting from
35 -- Wide_String or Wide_Wide_String to encoded String using a specified
36 -- encoding convention, which is supplied as the generic parameter. If
37 -- this parameter is a known at compile time constant (e.g. a constant
38 -- defined in System.WCh_Con), the instantiation is specialized so that
39 -- it applies only to this specified coding.
41 -- Note: this package is only about encoding sequences of 16- or 32-bit
42 -- characters into a sequence of 8-bit codes. It knows nothing at all about
43 -- the character encodings being used for the input Wide_Character and
44 -- Wide_Wide_Character values, although some of the encoding methods (notably
45 -- JIS and EUC) have built in assumptions about the range of possible input
46 -- code values. Most often the input will be Unicode/ISO-10646 as specified by
47 -- the Ada RM, but this package does not make any assumptions about the
48 -- character coding, and in the case of UTF-8 all possible code values can be
49 -- encoded. See also the packages Ada.Wide_[Wide_]Characters.Unicode for
50 -- unicode specific functions.
52 -- Note on brackets encoding (WCEM_Brackets). On input, upper half characters
53 -- can be represented as ["hh"] but the routines in this package will only use
54 -- brackets encodings for codes higher than 16#FF#, so upper half characters
55 -- will be output as single Character values.
57 with System.WCh_Con;
59 generic
60 Encoding_Method : System.WCh_Con.WC_Encoding_Method;
62 package GNAT.Encode_String is
63 pragma Pure;
65 function Encode_Wide_String (S : Wide_String) return String;
66 pragma Inline (Encode_Wide_String);
67 -- Encode the given Wide_String, returning a String encoded using the
68 -- given encoding method. Constraint_Error will be raised if the encoding
69 -- method cannot accommodate the input data.
71 procedure Encode_Wide_String
72 (S : Wide_String;
73 Result : out String;
74 Length : out Natural);
75 -- Encode the given Wide_String, storing the encoded string in Result,
76 -- with Length being set to the length of the encoded string. The caller
77 -- must ensure that Result is long enough (see useful constants defined
78 -- in System.WCh_Con: WC_Longest_Sequence, WC_Longest_Sequences). If the
79 -- length of Result is insufficient Constraint_Error will be raised.
80 -- Constraint_Error will also be raised if the encoding method cannot
81 -- accommodate the input data.
83 function Encode_Wide_Wide_String (S : Wide_Wide_String) return String;
84 pragma Inline (Encode_Wide_Wide_String);
85 -- Same as above function but for Wide_Wide_String input
87 procedure Encode_Wide_Wide_String
88 (S : Wide_Wide_String;
89 Result : out String;
90 Length : out Natural);
91 -- Same as above procedure, but for Wide_Wide_String input
93 procedure Encode_Wide_Character
94 (Char : Wide_Character;
95 Result : in out String;
96 Ptr : in out Natural);
97 pragma Inline (Encode_Wide_Character);
98 -- This is a lower level procedure that encodes the single character Char.
99 -- The output is stored in Result starting at Result (Ptr), and Ptr is
100 -- updated past the stored value. Constraint_Error is raised if Result
101 -- is not long enough to accommodate the result, or if the encoding method
102 -- specified does not accommodate the input character value, or if Ptr is
103 -- outside the bounds of the Result string.
105 procedure Encode_Wide_Wide_Character
106 (Char : Wide_Wide_Character;
107 Result : in out String;
108 Ptr : in out Natural);
109 -- Same as above procedure but with Wide_Wide_Character input
111 end GNAT.Encode_String;