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      1 /*
      2 ******************************************************************************
      3 *
      4 *   Copyright (C) 1997-2014, 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 /**
     71  * Set the ICU data directory.
     72  * The data directory is where common format ICU data files (.dat files)
     73  *   are loaded from.  Note that normal use of the built-in ICU
     74  *   facilities does not require loading of an external data file;
     75  *   unless you are adding custom data to ICU, the data directory
     76  *   does not need to be set.
     77  *
     78  * This function should be called at most once in a process, before the
     79  * first ICU operation (e.g., u_init()) that will require the loading of an
     80  * ICU data file.
     81  * This function is not thread-safe. Use it before calling ICU APIs from
     82  * multiple threads.
     83  *
     84  * @param directory The directory to be set.
     85  *
     86  * @see u_init
     87  * @stable ICU 2.0
     88  */
     89 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2 u_setDataDirectory(const char *directory);
     90 
     91 #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
     92 /**
     93   * Return the time zone files override directory, or an empty string if
     94   * no directory was specified. Certain time zone resources will be preferrentially
     95   * loaded from individual files in this directory.
     96   *
     97   * @return the time zone data override directory.
     98   * @internal
     99   */
    100 U_INTERNAL const char * U_EXPORT2 u_getTimeZoneFilesDirectory(UErrorCode *status);
    101 
    102 /**
    103   * Set the time zone files override directory.
    104   * This function is not thread safe; it must not be called concurrently with
    105   *   u_getTimeZoneFilesDirectory() or any other use of ICU time zone functions.
    106   * This function should only be called before using any ICU service that
    107   *   will access the time zone data.
    108   * @internal
    109   */
    110 U_INTERNAL void U_EXPORT2 u_setTimeZoneFilesDirectory(const char *path, UErrorCode *status);
    111 #endif  /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
    112 
    113 
    114 /**
    115  * @{
    116  * Filesystem file and path separator characters.
    117  * Example: '/' and ':' on Unix, '\\' and ';' on Windows.
    118  * @stable ICU 2.0
    119  */
    120 #if U_PLATFORM_USES_ONLY_WIN32_API
    121 #   define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '\\'
    122 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
    123 #   define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ';'
    124 #   define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "\\"
    125 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
    126 #   define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ";"
    127 #else
    128 #   define U_FILE_SEP_CHAR '/'
    129 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_CHAR '/'
    130 #   define U_PATH_SEP_CHAR ':'
    131 #   define U_FILE_SEP_STRING "/"
    132 #   define U_FILE_ALT_SEP_STRING "/"
    133 #   define U_PATH_SEP_STRING ":"
    134 #endif
    135 
    136 /** @} */
    137 
    138 /**
    139  * Convert char characters to UChar characters.
    140  * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
    141  * that are encoded in the platform default encoding.
    142  * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
    143  * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
    144  * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
    145  *
    146  * @param cs Input string, points to <code>length</code>
    147  *           character bytes from a subset of the platform encoding.
    148  * @param us Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
    149  *           Unicode characters.
    150  * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
    151  *               include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
    152  *
    153  * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
    154  * @stable ICU 2.0
    155  */
    156 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
    157 u_charsToUChars(const char *cs, UChar *us, int32_t length);
    158 
    159 /**
    160  * Convert UChar characters to char characters.
    161  * This utility function is useful only for "invariant characters"
    162  * that can be encoded in the platform default encoding.
    163  * They are a small, constant subset of the encoding and include
    164  * just the latin letters, digits, and some punctuation.
    165  * For details, see U_CHARSET_FAMILY.
    166  *
    167  * @param us Input string, points to <code>length</code>
    168  *           Unicode characters that can be encoded with the
    169  *           codepage-invariant subset of the platform encoding.
    170  * @param cs Output string, points to memory for <code>length</code>
    171  *           character bytes.
    172  * @param length The number of characters to convert; this may
    173  *               include the terminating <code>NUL</code>.
    174  *
    175  * @see U_CHARSET_FAMILY
    176  * @stable ICU 2.0
    177  */
    178 U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
    179 u_UCharsToChars(const UChar *us, char *cs, int32_t length);
    180 
    181 #endif
    182