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      1 /*
      2 ******************************************************************************
      3 *
      4 *   Copyright (C) 1997-2011, International Business Machines
      5 *   Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
      6 *
      7 ******************************************************************************
      8 *
      9 *  FILE NAME : putil.h
     10 *
     11 *   Date        Name        Description
     12 *   05/14/98    nos         Creation (content moved here from utypes.h).
     13 *   06/17/99    erm         Added IEEE_754
     14 *   07/22/98    stephen     Added IEEEremainder, max, min, trunc
     15 *   08/13/98    stephen     Added isNegativeInfinity, isPositiveInfinity
     16 *   08/24/98    stephen     Added longBitsFromDouble
     17 *   03/02/99    stephen     Removed openFile().  Added AS400 support.
     18 *   04/15/99    stephen     Converted to C
     19 *   11/15/99    helena      Integrated S/390 changes for IEEE support.
     20 *   01/11/00    helena      Added u_getVersion.
     21 ******************************************************************************
     22 */
     23 
     24 #ifndef PUTIL_H
     25 #define PUTIL_H
     26 
     27 #include "unicode/utypes.h"
     28  /**
     29   * \file
     30   * \brief C API: Platform Utilities
     31   */
     32 
     33 /*==========================================================================*/
     34 /* Platform utilities                                                       */
     35 /*==========================================================================*/
     36 
     37 /**
     38  * Platform utilities isolates the platform dependencies of the
     39  * libarary.  For each platform which this code is ported to, these
     40  * functions may have to be re-implemented.
     41  */
     42 
     43 /**
     44  * Return the ICU data directory.
     45  * The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files)
     46  *   are loaded from.  Note that normal use of the built-in ICU
     47  *   facilities does not require loading of an external data file;
     48  *   unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory
     49  *   does not need to be set.
     50  *
     51  * The data directory is determined as follows:
     52  *    If u_setDataDirectory() has been called, that is it, otherwise
     53  *    if the ICU_DATA environment variable is set, use that, otherwise
     54  *    If a data directory was specifed at ICU build time
     55  *      <code>
     56  * \code
     57  *        #define ICU_DATA_DIR "path"
     58  * \endcode
     59  * </code> use that,
     60  *    otherwise no data directory is available.
     61  *
     62  * @return the data directory, or an empty string ("") if no data directory has
     63  *         been specified.
     64  *
     65  * @stable ICU 2.0
     66  */
     67 U_STABLE const char* U_EXPORT2 u_getDataDirectory(void);
     68 
     69 /**
     70  * Set the ICU data directory.
     71  * The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files)
     72  *   are loaded from.  Note that normal use of the built-in ICU
     73  *   facilities does not require loading of an external data file;
     74  *   unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory
     75  *   does not need to be set.
     76  *
     77  * This function should be called at most once in a process, before the
     78  * first ICU operation (e.g., u_init()) that will require the loading of an
     79  * ICU data file.
     80  * This function is not thread-safe. Use it before calling ICU APIs from
     81  * multiple threads.
     82  *
     83  * @param directory The directory to be set.
     84  *
     85  * @see u_init
     86  * @stable ICU 2.0
     87  */
     88 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2 u_setDataDirectory(const char *directory);
     89 
     90 /**
     91  * @{
     92  * Filesystem file and path separator characters.
     93  * Example: '/' and ':' on Unix, '\\' and ';' on Windows.
     94  * @stable ICU 2.0
     95  */
     96 #if U_PLATFORM == U_PF_CLASSIC_MACOS
     97 #   define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR ':'
     98 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR ':'
     99 #   define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ';'
    100 #   define U_FILE_SEP_STRING ":"
    101 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING ":"
    102 #   define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ";"
    103 #elif U_PLATFORM_USES_ONLY_WIN32_API
    104 #   define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '\\'
    105 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
    106 #   define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ';'
    107 #   define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "\\"
    108 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
    109 #   define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ";"
    110 #else
    111 #   define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '/'
    112 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
    113 #   define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ':'
    114 #   define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "/"
    115 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
    116 #   define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ":"
    117 #endif
    118 
    119 /** @} */
    120 
    121 /**
    122  * Convert char characters to UChar characters.
    123  * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
    124  * that are encoded in the platform default encoding.
    125  * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
    126  * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
    127  * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
    128  *
    129  * @param cs Input string, points to <code>length</code>
    130  *           character bytes from a subset of the platform encoding.
    131  * @param us Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
    132  *           Unicode characters.
    133  * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
    134  *               include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
    135  *
    136  * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
    137  * @stable ICU 2.0
    138  */
    139 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
    140 u_charsToUChars(const char *cs, UChar *us, int32_t length);
    141 
    142 /**
    143  * Convert UChar characters to char characters.
    144  * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
    145  * that can be encoded in the platform default encoding.
    146  * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
    147  * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
    148  * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
    149  *
    150  * @param us Input string, points to <code>length</code>
    151  *           Unicode characters that can be encoded with the
    152  *           codepage-invariant subset of the platform encoding.
    153  * @param cs Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
    154  *           character bytes.
    155  * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
    156  *               include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
    157  *
    158  * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
    159  * @stable ICU 2.0
    160  */
    161 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
    162 u_UCharsToChars(const UChar *us, char *cs, int32_t length);
    163 
    164 #endif
    165