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-- GNAT RUN-TIME COMPONENTS --
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-- G N A T . D E C O D E _ S T R I N G --
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-- S p e c --
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-- This generic package provides utility routines for converting from an
-- encoded string to a corresponding Wide_String or Wide_Wide_String value
-- using a specified encoding convention, which is supplied as the generic
-- parameter. UTF-8 is handled especially efficiently, and if the encoding
-- method is known at compile time to be WCEM_UTF8, then the instantiation
-- is specialized to handle only the UTF-8 case and exclude code for the
-- other encoding methods. The package also provides positioning routines
-- for skipping encoded characters in either direction, and for validating
-- strings for correct encodings.
-- Note: this package is only about decoding sequences of 8-bit characters
-- into corresponding 16-bit Wide_String or 32-bit Wide_Wide_String values.
-- It knows nothing at all about the character encodings being used for the
-- resulting Wide_Character and Wide_Wide_Character values. Most often this
-- will be Unicode/ISO-10646 as specified by the Ada RM, but this package
-- does not make any assumptions about the character coding. See also the
-- packages Ada.Wide_[Wide_]Characters.Unicode for unicode specific functions.
-- In particular, in the case of UTF-8, all valid UTF-8 encodings, as listed
-- in table 3.6 of the Unicode Standard, version 6.2.0, are recognized as
-- legitimate. This includes the full range 16#0000_0000# .. 16#03FF_FFFF#.
-- This includes codes in the range 16#D800# - 16#DFFF#. These codes all
-- have UTF-8 encoding sequences that are well-defined (e.g. the encoding for
-- 16#D800# is ED A0 80). But these codes do not correspond to defined Unicode
-- characters and are thus considered to be "not well-formed" (see table 3.7
-- of the Unicode Standard). If you need to exclude these codes, you must do
-- that manually, e.g. use Decode_Wide_Character/Decode_Wide_String and check
-- that the resulting code(s) are not in this range.
-- Note on the use of brackets encoding (WCEM_Brackets). The brackets encoding
-- method is ambiguous in the context of this package, since there is no way
-- to tell if ["1234"] is eight unencoded characters or one encoded character.
-- In the context of Ada sources, any sequence starting [" must be the start
-- of an encoding (since that sequence is not valid in Ada source otherwise).
-- The routines in this package use the same approach. If the input string
-- contains the sequence [" then this is assumed to be the start of a brackets
-- encoding sequence, and if it does not match the syntax, an error is raised.
-- In the case of the Prev functions, a sequence ending with "] is assumed to
-- be a valid brackets sequence, and an error is raised if it is not.
with System.WCh_Con;
generic
Encoding_Method : System.WCh_Con.WC_Encoding_Method;
package GNAT.Decode_String is
pragma Pure;
function Decode_Wide_String (S : String) return Wide_String;
pragma Inline (Decode_Wide_String);
-- Decode the given String, which is encoded using the indicated coding
-- method, returning the corresponding decoded Wide_String value. If S
-- contains a character code that cannot be represented with the given
-- encoding, then Constraint_Error is raised.
procedure Decode_Wide_String
(S : String;
Result : out Wide_String;
Length : out Natural);
-- Similar to the above function except that the result is stored in the
-- given Wide_String variable Result, starting at Result (Result'First). On
-- return, Length is set to the number of characters stored in Result. The
-- caller must ensure that Result is long enough (an easy choice is to set
-- the length equal to the S'Length, since decoding can never increase the
-- string length). If the length of Result is insufficient Constraint_Error
-- will be raised.
function Decode_Wide_Wide_String (S : String) return Wide_Wide_String;
-- Same as above function but for Wide_Wide_String output
procedure Decode_Wide_Wide_String
(S : String;
Result : out Wide_Wide_String;
Length : out Natural);
-- Same as above procedure, but for Wide_Wide_String output
function Validate_Wide_String (S : String) return Boolean;
-- This function inspects the string S to determine if it contains only
-- valid encodings corresponding to Wide_Character values using the
-- given encoding. If a call to Decode_Wide_String (S) would return
-- without raising Constraint_Error, then Validate_Wide_String will
-- return True. If the call would have raised Constraint_Error, then
-- Validate_Wide_String will return False.
function Validate_Wide_Wide_String (S : String) return Boolean;
-- Similar to Validate_Wide_String, except that it succeeds if the string
-- contains only encodings corresponding to Wide_Wide_Character values.
procedure Decode_Wide_Character
(Input : String;
Ptr : in out Natural;
Result : out Wide_Character);
pragma Inline (Decode_Wide_Character);
-- This is a lower level procedure that decodes a single character using
-- the given encoding method. The encoded character is stored in Input,
-- starting at Input (Ptr). The resulting output character is stored in
-- Result, and on return Ptr is updated past the input character or
-- encoding sequence. Constraint_Error will be raised if the input has
-- has a character that cannot be represented using the given encoding,
-- or if Ptr is outside the bounds of the Input string.
procedure Decode_Wide_Wide_Character
(Input : String;
Ptr : in out Natural;
Result : out Wide_Wide_Character);
pragma Inline (Decode_Wide_Wide_Character);
-- Same as above procedure but with Wide_Wide_Character input
procedure Next_Wide_Character (Input : String; Ptr : in out Natural);
pragma Inline (Next_Wide_Character);
-- This procedure examines the input string starting at Input (Ptr), and
-- advances Ptr past one character in the encoded string, so that on return
-- Ptr points to the next encoded character. Constraint_Error is raised if
-- an invalid encoding is encountered, or the end of the string is reached
-- or if Ptr is less than String'First on entry, or if the character
-- skipped is not a valid Wide_Character code.
procedure Prev_Wide_Character (Input : String; Ptr : in out Natural);
-- This procedure is similar to Next_Encoded_Character except that it moves
-- backwards in the string, so that on return, Ptr is set to point to the
-- previous encoded character. Constraint_Error is raised if the start of
-- the string is encountered. It is valid for Ptr to be one past the end
-- of the string for this call (in which case on return it will point to
-- the last encoded character).
--
-- Note: it is not generally possible to do this function efficiently with
-- all encodings, the current implementation is only efficient for the case
-- of UTF-8 (Encoding_Method = WCEM_UTF8) and Brackets (Encoding_Method =
-- WCEM_Brackets). For all other encodings, we work by starting at the
-- beginning of the string and moving forward till Ptr is reached, which
-- is correct but slow.
--
-- Note: this routine assumes that the sequence prior to Ptr is correctly
-- encoded, it does not have a defined behavior if this is not the case.
procedure Next_Wide_Wide_Character (Input : String; Ptr : in out Natural);
pragma Inline (Next_Wide_Wide_Character);
-- Similar to Next_Wide_Character except that codes skipped must be valid
-- Wide_Wide_Character codes.
procedure Prev_Wide_Wide_Character (Input : String; Ptr : in out Natural);
-- Similar to Prev_Wide_Character except that codes skipped must be valid
-- Wide_Wide_Character codes.
end GNAT.Decode_String;