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      1 // Copyright (c) 2010 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.
      4 
      5 #ifndef BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
      6 #define BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
      7 #pragma once
      8 
      9 #include <string>
     10 
     11 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
     12 #include "base/string16.h"
     13 #include "build/build_config.h"
     14 
     15 class FilePath;
     16 
     17 namespace base {
     18 namespace i18n {
     19 
     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;
     27 
     28 enum TextDirection {
     29   UNKNOWN_DIRECTION,
     30   RIGHT_TO_LEFT,
     31   LEFT_TO_RIGHT,
     32 };
     33 
     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 std::string GetConfiguredLocale();
     38 
     39 // Canonicalize a string (eg. a POSIX locale string) to a Chrome locale name.
     40 std::string GetCanonicalLocale(const char* locale);
     41 
     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 void SetICUDefaultLocale(const std::string& locale_string);
     50 
     51 // Returns true if the application text direction is right-to-left.
     52 bool IsRTL();
     53 
     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 bool ICUIsRTL();
     59 
     60 // Returns the text direction for |locale_name|.
     61 TextDirection GetTextDirectionForLocale(const char* locale_name);
     62 
     63 // Given the string in |text|, returns the directionality of the first
     64 // character with strong directionality in the string. If no character in the
     65 // text has strong directionality, LEFT_TO_RIGHT is returned. The Bidi
     66 // character types L, LRE, LRO, R, AL, RLE, and RLO are considered as strong
     67 // directionality characters. Please refer to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
     68 // for more information.
     69 TextDirection GetFirstStrongCharacterDirection(const string16& text);
     70 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
     71 TextDirection GetFirstStrongCharacterDirection(const std::wstring& text);
     72 #endif
     73 
     74 // Given the string in |text|, this function modifies the string in place with
     75 // the appropriate Unicode formatting marks that mark the string direction
     76 // (either left-to-right or right-to-left). The function checks both the current
     77 // locale and the contents of the string in order to determine the direction of
     78 // the returned string. The function returns true if the string in |text| was
     79 // properly adjusted.
     80 //
     81 // Certain LTR strings are not rendered correctly when the context is RTL. For
     82 // example, the string "Foo!" will appear as "!Foo" if it is rendered as is in
     83 // an RTL context. Calling this function will make sure the returned localized
     84 // string is always treated as a right-to-left string. This is done by
     85 // inserting certain Unicode formatting marks into the returned string.
     86 //
     87 // ** Notes about the Windows version of this function:
     88 // TODO(idana) bug 6806: this function adjusts the string in question only
     89 // if the current locale is right-to-left. The function does not take care of
     90 // the opposite case (an RTL string displayed in an LTR context) since
     91 // adjusting the string involves inserting Unicode formatting characters that
     92 // Windows does not handle well unless right-to-left language support is
     93 // installed. Since the English version of Windows doesn't have right-to-left
     94 // language support installed by default, inserting the direction Unicode mark
     95 // results in Windows displaying squares.
     96 bool AdjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16* text);
     97 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
     98 bool AdjustStringForLocaleDirection(std::wstring* text);
     99 #endif
    100 
    101 // Returns true if the string contains at least one character with strong right
    102 // to left directionality; that is, a character with either R or AL Unicode
    103 // BiDi character type.
    104 bool StringContainsStrongRTLChars(const string16& text);
    105 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
    106 bool StringContainsStrongRTLChars(const std::wstring& text);
    107 #endif
    108 
    109 // Wraps a string with an LRE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
    110 // Left-To-Right string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure LTR
    111 // strings are rendered properly in an RTL context.
    112 void WrapStringWithLTRFormatting(string16* text);
    113 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
    114 void WrapStringWithLTRFormatting(std::wstring* text);
    115 #endif
    116 
    117 // Wraps a string with an RLE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
    118 // Right-To-Left string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure RTL
    119 // strings are rendered properly in an LTR context.
    120 void WrapStringWithRTLFormatting(string16* text);
    121 #if defined(WCHAR_T_IS_UTF32)
    122 void WrapStringWithRTLFormatting(std::wstring* text);
    123 #endif
    124 
    125 // Wraps file path to get it to display correctly in RTL UI. All filepaths
    126 // should be passed through this function before display in UI for RTL locales.
    127 void WrapPathWithLTRFormatting(const FilePath& path,
    128                                string16* rtl_safe_path);
    129 
    130 // Given the string in |text|, this function returns the adjusted string having
    131 // LTR directionality for display purpose. Which means that in RTL locale the
    132 // string is wrapped with LRE (Left-To-Right Embedding) and PDF (Pop
    133 // Directional Formatting) marks and returned. In LTR locale, the string itself
    134 // is returned.
    135 string16 GetDisplayStringInLTRDirectionality(const string16& text)
    136     WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    137 
    138 // Strip the beginning (U+202A..U+202B, U+202D..U+202E) and/or ending (U+202C)
    139 // explicit bidi control characters from |text|, if there are any. Otherwise,
    140 // return the text itself. Explicit bidi control characters display and have
    141 // semantic effect. They can be deleted so they might not always appear in a
    142 // pair.
    143 const string16 StripWrappingBidiControlCharacters(const string16& text)
    144     WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
    145 
    146 }  // namespace i18n
    147 }  // namespace base
    148 
    149 #endif  // BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
    150