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      6 *   Date        Name        Description
      7 *   11/17/99    aliu        Creation.
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     10 #ifndef TRANSLIT_H
     11 #define TRANSLIT_H
     12 
     13 #include "unicode/utypes.h"
     14 
     15 /**
     16  * \file
     17  * \brief C++ API: Tranforms text from one format to another.
     18  */
     19 
     20 #if !UCONFIG_NO_TRANSLITERATION
     21 
     22 #include "unicode/uobject.h"
     23 #include "unicode/unistr.h"
     24 #include "unicode/parseerr.h"
     25 #include "unicode/utrans.h" // UTransPosition, UTransDirection
     26 #include "unicode/strenum.h"
     27 
     28 U_NAMESPACE_BEGIN
     29 
     30 class UnicodeFilter;
     31 class UnicodeSet;
     32 class CompoundTransliterator;
     33 class TransliteratorParser;
     34 class NormalizationTransliterator;
     35 class TransliteratorIDParser;
     36 
     37 /**
     38  *
     39  * <code>Transliterator</code> is an abstract class that
     40  * transliterates text from one format to another.  The most common
     41  * kind of transliterator is a script, or alphabet, transliterator.
     42  * For example, a Russian to Latin transliterator changes Russian text
     43  * written in Cyrillic characters to phonetically equivalent Latin
     44  * characters.  It does not <em>translate</em> Russian to English!
     45  * Transliteration, unlike translation, operates on characters, without
     46  * reference to the meanings of words and sentences.
     47  *
     48  * <p>Although script conversion is its most common use, a
     49  * transliterator can actually perform a more general class of tasks.
     50  * In fact, <code>Transliterator</code> defines a very general API
     51  * which specifies only that a segment of the input text is replaced
     52  * by new text.  The particulars of this conversion are determined
     53  * entirely by subclasses of <code>Transliterator</code>.
     54  *
     55  * <p><b>Transliterators are stateless</b>
     56  *
     57  * <p><code>Transliterator</code> objects are <em>stateless</em>; they
     58  * retain no information between calls to
     59  * <code>transliterate()</code>.  (However, this does <em>not</em>
     60  * mean that threads may share transliterators without synchronizing
     61  * them.  Transliterators are not immutable, so they must be
     62  * synchronized when shared between threads.)  This might seem to
     63  * limit the complexity of the transliteration operation.  In
     64  * practice, subclasses perform complex transliterations by delaying
     65  * the replacement of text until it is known that no other
     66  * replacements are possible.  In other words, although the
     67  * <code>Transliterator</code> objects are stateless, the source text
     68  * itself embodies all the needed information, and delayed operation
     69  * allows arbitrary complexity.
     70  *
     71  * <p><b>Batch transliteration</b>
     72  *
     73  * <p>The simplest way to perform transliteration is all at once, on a
     74  * string of existing text.  This is referred to as <em>batch</em>
     75  * transliteration.  For example, given a string <code>input</code>
     76  * and a transliterator <code>t</code>, the call
     77  *
     78  * \htmlonly<blockquote>\endhtmlonly<code>String result = t.transliterate(input);
     79  * </code>\htmlonly</blockquote>\endhtmlonly
     80  *
     81  * will transliterate it and return the result.  Other methods allow
     82  * the client to specify a substring to be transliterated and to use
     83  * {@link Replaceable } objects instead of strings, in order to
     84  * preserve out-of-band information (such as text styles).
     85  *
     86  * <p><b>Keyboard transliteration</b>
     87  *
     88  * <p>Somewhat more involved is <em>keyboard</em>, or incremental
     89  * transliteration.  This is the transliteration of text that is
     90  * arriving from some source (typically the user's keyboard) one
     91  * character at a time, or in some other piecemeal fashion.
     92  *
     93  * <p>In keyboard transliteration, a <code>Replaceable</code> buffer
     94  * stores the text.  As text is inserted, as much as possible is
     95  * transliterated on the fly.  This means a GUI that displays the
     96  * contents of the buffer may show text being modified as each new
     97  * character arrives.
     98  *
     99  * <p>Consider the simple <code>RuleBasedTransliterator</code>:
    100  *
    101  * \htmlonly<blockquote>\endhtmlonly<code>
    102  * th&gt;{theta}<br>
    103  * t&gt;{tau}
    104  * </code>\htmlonly</blockquote>\endhtmlonly
    105  *
    106  * When the user types 't', nothing will happen, since the
    107  * transliterator is waiting to see if the next character is 'h'.  To
    108  * remedy this, we introduce the notion of a cursor, marked by a '|'
    109  * in the output string:
    110  *
    111  * \htmlonly<blockquote>\endhtmlonly<code>
    112  * t&gt;|{tau}<br>
    113  * {tau}h&gt;{theta}
    114  * </code>\htmlonly</blockquote>\endhtmlonly
    115  *
    116  * Now when the user types 't', tau appears, and if the next character
    117  * is 'h', the tau changes to a theta.  This is accomplished by
    118  * maintaining a cursor position (independent of the insertion point,
    119  * and invisible in the GUI) across calls to
    120  * <code>transliterate()</code>.  Typically, the cursor will
    121  * be coincident with the insertion point, but in a case like the one
    122  * above, it will precede the insertion point.
    123  *
    124  * <p>Keyboard transliteration methods maintain a set of three indices
    125  * that are updated with each call to
    126  * <code>transliterate()</code>, including the cursor, start,
    127  * and limit.  Since these indices are changed by the method, they are
    128  * passed in an <code>int[]</code> array. The <code>START</code> index
    129  * marks the beginning of the substring that the transliterator will
    130  * look at.  It is advanced as text becomes committed (but it is not
    131  * the committed index; that's the <code>CURSOR</code>).  The
    132  * <code>CURSOR</code> index, described above, marks the point at
    133  * which the transliterator last stopped, either because it reached
    134  * the end, or because it required more characters to disambiguate
    135  * between possible inputs.  The <code>CURSOR</code> can also be
    136  * explicitly set by rules in a <code>RuleBasedTransliterator</code>.
    137  * Any characters before the <code>CURSOR</code> index are frozen;
    138  * future keyboard transliteration calls within this input sequence
    139  * will not change them.  New text is inserted at the
    140  * <code>LIMIT</code> index, which marks the end of the substring that
    141  * the transliterator looks at.
    142  *
    143  * <p>Because keyboard transliteration assumes that more characters
    144  * are to arrive, it is conservative in its operation.  It only
    145  * transliterates when it can do so unambiguously.  Otherwise it waits
    146  * for more characters to arrive.  When the client code knows that no
    147  * more characters are forthcoming, perhaps because the user has
    148  * performed some input termination operation, then it should call
    149  * <code>finishTransliteration()</code> to complete any
    150  * pending transliterations.
    151  *
    152  * <p><b>Inverses</b>
    153  *
    154  * <p>Pairs of transliterators may be inverses of one another.  For
    155  * example, if transliterator <b>A</b> transliterates characters by
    156  * incrementing their Unicode value (so "abc" -> "def"), and
    157  * transliterator <b>B</b> decrements character values, then <b>A</b>
    158  * is an inverse of <b>B</b> and vice versa.  If we compose <b>A</b>
    159  * with <b>B</b> in a compound transliterator, the result is the
    160  * indentity transliterator, that is, a transliterator that does not
    161  * change its input text.
    162  *
    163  * The <code>Transliterator</code> method <code>getInverse()</code>
    164  * returns a transliterator's inverse, if one exists, or
    165  * <code>null</code> otherwise.  However, the result of
    166  * <code>getInverse()</code> usually will <em>not</em> be a true
    167  * mathematical inverse.  This is because true inverse transliterators
    168  * are difficult to formulate.  For example, consider two
    169  * transliterators: <b>AB</b>, which transliterates the character 'A'
    170  * to 'B', and <b>BA</b>, which transliterates 'B' to 'A'.  It might
    171  * seem that these are exact inverses, since
    172  *
    173  * \htmlonly<blockquote>\endhtmlonly"A" x <b>AB</b> -> "B"<br>
    174  * "B" x <b>BA</b> -> "A"\htmlonly</blockquote>\endhtmlonly
    175  *
    176  * where 'x' represents transliteration.  However,
    177  *
    178  * \htmlonly<blockquote>\endhtmlonly"ABCD" x <b>AB</b> -> "BBCD"<br>
    179  * "BBCD" x <b>BA</b> -> "AACD"\htmlonly</blockquote>\endhtmlonly
    180  *
    181  * so <b>AB</b> composed with <b>BA</b> is not the
    182  * identity. Nonetheless, <b>BA</b> may be usefully considered to be
    183  * <b>AB</b>'s inverse, and it is on this basis that
    184  * <b>AB</b><code>.getInverse()</code> could legitimately return
    185  * <b>BA</b>.
    186  *
    187  * <p><b>IDs and display names</b>
    188  *
    189  * <p>A transliterator is designated by a short identifier string or
    190  * <em>ID</em>.  IDs follow the format <em>source-destination</em>,
    191  * where <em>source</em> describes the entity being replaced, and
    192  * <em>destination</em> describes the entity replacing
    193  * <em>source</em>.  The entities may be the names of scripts,
    194  * particular sequences of characters, or whatever else it is that the
    195  * transliterator converts to or from.  For example, a transliterator
    196  * from Russian to Latin might be named "Russian-Latin".  A
    197  * transliterator from keyboard escape sequences to Latin-1 characters
    198  * might be named "KeyboardEscape-Latin1".  By convention, system
    199  * entity names are in English, with the initial letters of words
    200  * capitalized; user entity names may follow any format so long as
    201  * they do not contain dashes.
    202  *
    203  * <p>In addition to programmatic IDs, transliterator objects have
    204  * display names for presentation in user interfaces, returned by
    205  * {@link #getDisplayName }.
    206  *
    207  * <p><b>Factory methods and registration</b>
    208  *
    209  * <p>In general, client code should use the factory method
    210  * {@link #createInstance } to obtain an instance of a
    211  * transliterator given its ID.  Valid IDs may be enumerated using
    212  * <code>getAvailableIDs()</code>.  Since transliterators are mutable,
    213  * multiple calls to {@link #createInstance } with the same ID will
    214  * return distinct objects.
    215  *
    216  * <p>In addition to the system transliterators registered at startup,
    217  * user transliterators may be registered by calling
    218  * <code>registerInstance()</code> at run time.  A registered instance
    219  * acts a template; future calls to {@link #createInstance } with the ID
    220  * of the registered object return clones of that object.  Thus any
    221  * object passed to <tt>registerInstance()</tt> must implement
    222  * <tt>clone()</tt> propertly.  To register a transliterator subclass
    223  * without instantiating it (until it is needed), users may call
    224  * {@link #registerFactory }.  In this case, the objects are
    225  * instantiated by invoking the zero-argument public constructor of
    226  * the class.
    227  *
    228  * <p><b>Subclassing</b>
    229  *
    230  * Subclasses must implement the abstract method
    231  * <code>handleTransliterate()</code>.  <p>Subclasses should override
    232  * the <code>transliterate()</code> method taking a
    233  * <code>Replaceable</code> and the <code>transliterate()</code>
    234  * method taking a <code>String</code> and <code>StringBuffer</code>
    235  * if the performance of these methods can be improved over the
    236  * performance obtained by the default implementations in this class.
    237  *
    238  * @author Alan Liu
    239  * @stable ICU 2.0
    240  */
    241 class U_I18N_API Transliterator : public UObject {
    242 
    243 private:
    244 
    245     /**
    246      * Programmatic name, e.g., "Latin-Arabic".
    247      */
    248     UnicodeString ID;
    249 
    250     /**
    251      * This transliterator's filter.  Any character for which
    252      * <tt>filter.contains()</tt> returns <tt>false</tt> will not be
    253      * altered by this transliterator.  If <tt>filter</tt> is
    254      * <tt>null</tt> then no filtering is applied.
    255      */
    256     UnicodeFilter* filter;
    257 
    258     int32_t maximumContextLength;
    259 
    260  public:
    261 
    262     /**
    263      * A context integer or pointer for a factory function, passed by
    264      * value.
    265      * @stable ICU 2.4
    266      */
    267     union Token {
    268         /**
    269          * This token, interpreted as a 32-bit integer.
    270          * @stable ICU 2.4
    271          */
    272         int32_t integer;
    273         /**
    274          * This token, interpreted as a native pointer.
    275          * @stable ICU 2.4
    276          */
    277         void*   pointer;
    278     };
    279 
    280 #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
    281     /**
    282      * Return a token containing an integer.
    283      * @return a token containing an integer.
    284      * @internal
    285      */
    286     inline static Token integerToken(int32_t);
    287 
    288     /**
    289      * Return a token containing a pointer.
    290      * @return a token containing a pointer.
    291      * @internal
    292      */
    293     inline static Token pointerToken(void*);
    294 #endif  /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
    295 
    296     /**
    297      * A function that creates and returns a Transliterator.  When
    298      * invoked, it will be passed the ID string that is being
    299      * instantiated, together with the context pointer that was passed
    300      * in when the factory function was first registered.  Many
    301      * factory functions will ignore both parameters, however,
    302      * functions that are registered to more than one ID may use the
    303      * ID or the context parameter to parameterize the transliterator
    304      * they create.
    305      * @param ID      the string identifier for this transliterator
    306      * @param context a context pointer that will be stored and
    307      *                later passed to the factory function when an ID matching
    308      *                the registration ID is being instantiated with this factory.
    309      * @stable ICU 2.4
    310      */
    311     typedef Transliterator* (U_EXPORT2 *Factory)(const UnicodeString& ID, Token context);
    312 
    313 protected:
    314 
    315     /**
    316      * Default constructor.
    317      * @param ID the string identifier for this transliterator
    318      * @param adoptedFilter the filter.  Any character for which
    319      * <tt>filter.contains()</tt> returns <tt>false</tt> will not be
    320      * altered by this transliterator.  If <tt>filter</tt> is
    321      * <tt>null</tt> then no filtering is applied.
    322      * @stable ICU 2.4
    323      */
    324     Transliterator(const UnicodeString& ID, UnicodeFilter* adoptedFilter);
    325 
    326     /**
    327      * Copy constructor.
    328      * @stable ICU 2.4
    329      */
    330     Transliterator(const Transliterator&);
    331 
    332     /**
    333      * Assignment operator.
    334      * @stable ICU 2.4
    335      */
    336     Transliterator& operator=(const Transliterator&);
    337 
    338     /**
    339      * Create a transliterator from a basic ID.  This is an ID
    340      * containing only the forward direction source, target, and
    341      * variant.
    342      * @param id a basic ID of the form S-T or S-T/V.
    343      * @param canon canonical ID to assign to the object, or
    344      * NULL to leave the ID unchanged
    345      * @return a newly created Transliterator or null if the ID is
    346      * invalid.
    347      * @stable ICU 2.4
    348      */
    349     static Transliterator* createBasicInstance(const UnicodeString& id,
    350                                                const UnicodeString* canon);
    351 
    352     friend class TransliteratorParser; // for parseID()
    353     friend class TransliteratorIDParser; // for createBasicInstance()
    354     friend class TransliteratorAlias; // for setID()
    355 
    356 public:
    357 
    358     /**
    359      * Destructor.
    360      * @stable ICU 2.0
    361      */
    362     virtual ~Transliterator();
    363 
    364     /**
    365      * Implements Cloneable.
    366      * All subclasses are encouraged to implement this method if it is
    367      * possible and reasonable to do so.  Subclasses that are to be
    368      * registered with the system using <tt>registerInstance()</tt>
    369      * are required to implement this method.  If a subclass does not
    370      * implement clone() properly and is registered with the system
    371      * using registerInstance(), then the default clone() implementation
    372      * will return null, and calls to createInstance() will fail.
    373      *
    374      * @return a copy of the object.
    375      * @see #registerInstance
    376      * @stable ICU 2.0
    377      */
    378     virtual Transliterator* clone() const;
    379 
    380     /**
    381      * Transliterates a segment of a string, with optional filtering.
    382      *
    383      * @param text the string to be transliterated
    384      * @param start the beginning index, inclusive; <code>0 <= start
    385      * <= limit</code>.
    386      * @param limit the ending index, exclusive; <code>start <= limit
    387      * <= text.length()</code>.
    388      * @return The new limit index.  The text previously occupying <code>[start,
    389      * limit)</code> has been transliterated, possibly to a string of a different
    390      * length, at <code>[start, </code><em>new-limit</em><code>)</code>, where
    391      * <em>new-limit</em> is the return value. If the input offsets are out of bounds,
    392      * the returned value is -1 and the input string remains unchanged.
    393      * @stable ICU 2.0
    394      */
    395     virtual int32_t transliterate(Replaceable& text,
    396                                   int32_t start, int32_t limit) const;
    397 
    398     /**
    399      * Transliterates an entire string in place. Convenience method.
    400      * @param text the string to be transliterated
    401      * @stable ICU 2.0
    402      */
    403     virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text) const;
    404 
    405     /**
    406      * Transliterates the portion of the text buffer that can be
    407      * transliterated unambiguosly after new text has been inserted,
    408      * typically as a result of a keyboard event.  The new text in
    409      * <code>insertion</code> will be inserted into <code>text</code>
    410      * at <code>index.limit</code>, advancing
    411      * <code>index.limit</code> by <code>insertion.length()</code>.
    412      * Then the transliterator will try to transliterate characters of
    413      * <code>text</code> between <code>index.cursor</code> and
    414      * <code>index.limit</code>.  Characters before
    415      * <code>index.cursor</code> will not be changed.
    416      *
    417      * <p>Upon return, values in <code>index</code> will be updated.
    418      * <code>index.start</code> will be advanced to the first
    419      * character that future calls to this method will read.
    420      * <code>index.cursor</code> and <code>index.limit</code> will
    421      * be adjusted to delimit the range of text that future calls to
    422      * this method may change.
    423      *
    424      * <p>Typical usage of this method begins with an initial call
    425      * with <code>index.start</code> and <code>index.limit</code>
    426      * set to indicate the portion of <code>text</code> to be
    427      * transliterated, and <code>index.cursor == index.start</code>.
    428      * Thereafter, <code>index</code> can be used without
    429      * modification in future calls, provided that all changes to
    430      * <code>text</code> are made via this method.
    431      *
    432      * <p>This method assumes that future calls may be made that will
    433      * insert new text into the buffer.  As a result, it only performs
    434      * unambiguous transliterations.  After the last call to this
    435      * method, there may be untransliterated text that is waiting for
    436      * more input to resolve an ambiguity.  In order to perform these
    437      * pending transliterations, clients should call {@link
    438      * #finishTransliteration } after the last call to this
    439      * method has been made.
    440      *
    441      * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and untransliterated text
    442      * @param index an array of three integers.
    443      *
    444      * <ul><li><code>index.start</code>: the beginning index,
    445      * inclusive; <code>0 <= index.start <= index.limit</code>.
    446      *
    447      * <li><code>index.limit</code>: the ending index, exclusive;
    448      * <code>index.start <= index.limit <= text.length()</code>.
    449      * <code>insertion</code> is inserted at
    450      * <code>index.limit</code>.
    451      *
    452      * <li><code>index.cursor</code>: the next character to be
    453      * considered for transliteration; <code>index.start <=
    454      * index.cursor <= index.limit</code>.  Characters before
    455      * <code>index.cursor</code> will not be changed by future calls
    456      * to this method.</ul>
    457      *
    458      * @param insertion text to be inserted and possibly
    459      * transliterated into the translation buffer at
    460      * <code>index.limit</code>.  If <code>null</code> then no text
    461      * is inserted.
    462      * @param status    Output param to filled in with a success or an error.
    463      * @see #handleTransliterate
    464      * @exception IllegalArgumentException if <code>index</code>
    465      * is invalid
    466      * @see UTransPosition
    467      * @stable ICU 2.0
    468      */
    469     virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text, UTransPosition& index,
    470                                const UnicodeString& insertion,
    471                                UErrorCode& status) const;
    472 
    473     /**
    474      * Transliterates the portion of the text buffer that can be
    475      * transliterated unambiguosly after a new character has been
    476      * inserted, typically as a result of a keyboard event.  This is a
    477      * convenience method.
    478      * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
    479      * untransliterated text
    480      * @param index an array of three integers.
    481      * @param insertion text to be inserted and possibly
    482      * transliterated into the translation buffer at
    483      * <code>index.limit</code>.
    484      * @param status    Output param to filled in with a success or an error.
    485      * @see #transliterate(Replaceable&, UTransPosition&, const UnicodeString&, UErrorCode&) const
    486      * @stable ICU 2.0
    487      */
    488     virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text, UTransPosition& index,
    489                                UChar32 insertion,
    490                                UErrorCode& status) const;
    491 
    492     /**
    493      * Transliterates the portion of the text buffer that can be
    494      * transliterated unambiguosly.  This is a convenience method; see
    495      * {@link
    496      * #transliterate(Replaceable&, UTransPosition&, const UnicodeString&, UErrorCode&) const }
    497      * for details.
    498      * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
    499      * untransliterated text
    500      * @param index an array of three integers.  See {@link #transliterate(Replaceable&, UTransPosition&, const UnicodeString*, UErrorCode&) const }.
    501      * @param status    Output param to filled in with a success or an error.
    502      * @see #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)
    503      * @stable ICU 2.0
    504      */
    505     virtual void transliterate(Replaceable& text, UTransPosition& index,
    506                                UErrorCode& status) const;
    507 
    508     /**
    509      * Finishes any pending transliterations that were waiting for
    510      * more characters.  Clients should call this method as the last
    511      * call after a sequence of one or more calls to
    512      * <code>transliterate()</code>.
    513      * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
    514      * untransliterated text.
    515      * @param index the array of indices previously passed to {@link
    516      * #transliterate }
    517      * @stable ICU 2.0
    518      */
    519     virtual void finishTransliteration(Replaceable& text,
    520                                        UTransPosition& index) const;
    521 
    522 private:
    523 
    524     /**
    525      * This internal method does incremental transliteration.  If the
    526      * 'insertion' is non-null then we append it to 'text' before
    527      * proceeding.  This method calls through to the pure virtual
    528      * framework method handleTransliterate() to do the actual
    529      * work.
    530      * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
    531      * untransliterated text
    532      * @param index an array of three integers.  See {@link
    533      * #transliterate(Replaceable, int[], String)}.
    534      * @param insertion text to be inserted and possibly
    535      * transliterated into the translation buffer at
    536      * <code>index.limit</code>.
    537      * @param status    Output param to filled in with a success or an error.
    538      */
    539     void _transliterate(Replaceable& text,
    540                         UTransPosition& index,
    541                         const UnicodeString* insertion,
    542                         UErrorCode &status) const;
    543 
    544 protected:
    545 
    546     /**
    547      * Abstract method that concrete subclasses define to implement
    548      * their transliteration algorithm.  This method handles both
    549      * incremental and non-incremental transliteration.  Let
    550      * <code>originalStart</code> refer to the value of
    551      * <code>pos.start</code> upon entry.
    552      *
    553      * <ul>
    554      *  <li>If <code>incremental</code> is false, then this method
    555      *  should transliterate all characters between
    556      *  <code>pos.start</code> and <code>pos.limit</code>. Upon return
    557      *  <code>pos.start</code> must == <code> pos.limit</code>.</li>
    558      *
    559      *  <li>If <code>incremental</code> is true, then this method
    560      *  should transliterate all characters between
    561      *  <code>pos.start</code> and <code>pos.limit</code> that can be
    562      *  unambiguously transliterated, regardless of future insertions
    563      *  of text at <code>pos.limit</code>.  Upon return,
    564      *  <code>pos.start</code> should be in the range
    565      *  [<code>originalStart</code>, <code>pos.limit</code>).
    566      *  <code>pos.start</code> should be positioned such that
    567      *  characters [<code>originalStart</code>, <code>
    568      *  pos.start</code>) will not be changed in the future by this
    569      *  transliterator and characters [<code>pos.start</code>,
    570      *  <code>pos.limit</code>) are unchanged.</li>
    571      * </ul>
    572      *
    573      * <p>Implementations of this method should also obey the
    574      * following invariants:</p>
    575      *
    576      * <ul>
    577      *  <li> <code>pos.limit</code> and <code>pos.contextLimit</code>
    578      *  should be updated to reflect changes in length of the text
    579      *  between <code>pos.start</code> and <code>pos.limit</code>. The
    580      *  difference <code> pos.contextLimit - pos.limit</code> should
    581      *  not change.</li>
    582      *
    583      *  <li><code>pos.contextStart</code> should not change.</li>
    584      *
    585      *  <li>Upon return, neither <code>pos.start</code> nor
    586      *  <code>pos.limit</code> should be less than
    587      *  <code>originalStart</code>.</li>
    588      *
    589      *  <li>Text before <code>originalStart</code> and text after
    590      *  <code>pos.limit</code> should not change.</li>
    591      *
    592      *  <li>Text before <code>pos.contextStart</code> and text after
    593      *  <code> pos.contextLimit</code> should be ignored.</li>
    594      * </ul>
    595      *
    596      * <p>Subclasses may safely assume that all characters in
    597      * [<code>pos.start</code>, <code>pos.limit</code>) are filtered.
    598      * In other words, the filter has already been applied by the time
    599      * this method is called.  See
    600      * <code>filteredTransliterate()</code>.
    601      *
    602      * <p>This method is <b>not</b> for public consumption.  Calling
    603      * this method directly will transliterate
    604      * [<code>pos.start</code>, <code>pos.limit</code>) without
    605      * applying the filter. End user code should call <code>
    606      * transliterate()</code> instead of this method. Subclass code
    607      * and wrapping transliterators should call
    608      * <code>filteredTransliterate()</code> instead of this method.<p>
    609      *
    610      * @param text the buffer holding transliterated and
    611      * untransliterated text
    612      *
    613      * @param pos the indices indicating the start, limit, context
    614      * start, and context limit of the text.
    615      *
    616      * @param incremental if true, assume more text may be inserted at
    617      * <code>pos.limit</code> and act accordingly.  Otherwise,
    618      * transliterate all text between <code>pos.start</code> and
    619      * <code>pos.limit</code> and move <code>pos.start</code> up to
    620      * <code>pos.limit</code>.
    621      *
    622      * @see #transliterate
    623      * @stable ICU 2.4
    624      */
    625     virtual void handleTransliterate(Replaceable& text,
    626                                      UTransPosition& pos,
    627                                      UBool incremental) const = 0;
    628 
    629 public:
    630     /**
    631      * Transliterate a substring of text, as specified by index, taking filters
    632      * into account.  This method is for subclasses that need to delegate to
    633      * another transliterator, such as CompoundTransliterator.
    634      * @param text the text to be transliterated
    635      * @param index the position indices
    636      * @param incremental if TRUE, then assume more characters may be inserted
    637      * at index.limit, and postpone processing to accomodate future incoming
    638      * characters
    639      * @stable ICU 2.4
    640      */
    641     virtual void filteredTransliterate(Replaceable& text,
    642                                        UTransPosition& index,
    643                                        UBool incremental) const;
    644 
    645 private:
    646 
    647     /**
    648      * Top-level transliteration method, handling filtering, incremental and
    649      * non-incremental transliteration, and rollback.  All transliteration
    650      * public API methods eventually call this method with a rollback argument
    651      * of TRUE.  Other entities may call this method but rollback should be
    652      * FALSE.
    653      *
    654      * <p>If this transliterator has a filter, break up the input text into runs
    655      * of unfiltered characters.  Pass each run to
    656      * subclass.handleTransliterate().
    657      *
    658      * <p>In incremental mode, if rollback is TRUE, perform a special
    659      * incremental procedure in which several passes are made over the input
    660      * text, adding one character at a time, and committing successful
    661      * transliterations as they occur.  Unsuccessful transliterations are rolled
    662      * back and retried with additional characters to give correct results.
    663      *
    664      * @param text the text to be transliterated
    665      * @param index the position indices
    666      * @param incremental if TRUE, then assume more characters may be inserted
    667      * at index.limit, and postpone processing to accomodate future incoming
    668      * characters
    669      * @param rollback if TRUE and if incremental is TRUE, then perform special
    670      * incremental processing, as described above, and undo partial
    671      * transliterations where necessary.  If incremental is FALSE then this
    672      * parameter is ignored.
    673      */
    674     virtual void filteredTransliterate(Replaceable& text,
    675                                        UTransPosition& index,
    676                                        UBool incremental,
    677                                        UBool rollback) const;
    678 
    679 public:
    680 
    681     /**
    682      * Returns the length of the longest context required by this transliterator.
    683      * This is <em>preceding</em> context.  The default implementation supplied
    684      * by <code>Transliterator</code> returns zero; subclasses
    685      * that use preceding context should override this method to return the
    686      * correct value.  For example, if a transliterator translates "ddd" (where
    687      * d is any digit) to "555" when preceded by "(ddd)", then the preceding
    688      * context length is 5, the length of "(ddd)".
    689      *
    690      * @return The maximum number of preceding context characters this
    691      * transliterator needs to examine
    692      * @stable ICU 2.0
    693      */
    694     int32_t getMaximumContextLength(void) const;
    695 
    696 protected:
    697 
    698     /**
    699      * Method for subclasses to use to set the maximum context length.
    700      * @param maxContextLength the new value to be set.
    701      * @see #getMaximumContextLength
    702      * @stable ICU 2.4
    703      */
    704     void setMaximumContextLength(int32_t maxContextLength);
    705 
    706 public:
    707 
    708     /**
    709      * Returns a programmatic identifier for this transliterator.
    710      * If this identifier is passed to <code>createInstance()</code>, it
    711      * will return this object, if it has been registered.
    712      * @return a programmatic identifier for this transliterator.
    713      * @see #registerInstance
    714      * @see #registerFactory
    715      * @see #getAvailableIDs
    716      * @stable ICU 2.0
    717      */
    718     virtual const UnicodeString& getID(void) const;
    719 
    720     /**
    721      * Returns a name for this transliterator that is appropriate for
    722      * display to the user in the default locale.  See {@link
    723      * #getDisplayName } for details.
    724      * @param ID     the string identifier for this transliterator
    725      * @param result Output param to receive the display name
    726      * @return       A reference to 'result'.
    727      * @stable ICU 2.0
    728      */
    729     static UnicodeString& U_EXPORT2 getDisplayName(const UnicodeString& ID,
    730                                          UnicodeString& result);
    731 
    732     /**
    733      * Returns a name for this transliterator that is appropriate for
    734      * display to the user in the given locale.  This name is taken
    735      * from the locale resource data in the standard manner of the
    736      * <code>java.text</code> package.
    737      *
    738      * <p>If no localized names exist in the system resource bundles,
    739      * a name is synthesized using a localized
    740      * <code>MessageFormat</code> pattern from the resource data.  The
    741      * arguments to this pattern are an integer followed by one or two
    742      * strings.  The integer is the number of strings, either 1 or 2.
    743      * The strings are formed by splitting the ID for this
    744      * transliterator at the first '-'.  If there is no '-', then the
    745      * entire ID forms the only string.
    746      * @param ID       the string identifier for this transliterator
    747      * @param inLocale the Locale in which the display name should be
    748      *                 localized.
    749      * @param result   Output param to receive the display name
    750      * @return         A reference to 'result'.
    751      * @stable ICU 2.0
    752      */
    753     static UnicodeString& U_EXPORT2 getDisplayName(const UnicodeString& ID,
    754                                          const Locale& inLocale,
    755                                          UnicodeString& result);
    756 
    757     /**
    758      * Returns the filter used by this transliterator, or <tt>NULL</tt>
    759      * if this transliterator uses no filter.
    760      * @return the filter used by this transliterator, or <tt>NULL</tt>
    761      *         if this transliterator uses no filter.
    762      * @stable ICU 2.0
    763      */
    764     const UnicodeFilter* getFilter(void) const;
    765 
    766     /**
    767      * Returns the filter used by this transliterator, or <tt>NULL</tt> if this
    768      * transliterator uses no filter.  The caller must eventually delete the
    769      * result.  After this call, this transliterator's filter is set to
    770      * <tt>NULL</tt>.
    771      * @return the filter used by this transliterator, or <tt>NULL</tt> if this
    772      *         transliterator uses no filter.
    773      * @stable ICU 2.4
    774      */
    775     UnicodeFilter* orphanFilter(void);
    776 
    777     /**
    778      * Changes the filter used by this transliterator.  If the filter
    779      * is set to <tt>null</tt> then no filtering will occur.
    780      *
    781      * <p>Callers must take care if a transliterator is in use by
    782      * multiple threads.  The filter should not be changed by one
    783      * thread while another thread may be transliterating.
    784      * @param adoptedFilter the new filter to be adopted.
    785      * @stable ICU 2.0
    786      */
    787     void adoptFilter(UnicodeFilter* adoptedFilter);
    788 
    789     /**
    790      * Returns this transliterator's inverse.  See the class
    791      * documentation for details.  This implementation simply inverts
    792      * the two entities in the ID and attempts to retrieve the
    793      * resulting transliterator.  That is, if <code>getID()</code>
    794      * returns "A-B", then this method will return the result of
    795      * <code>createInstance("B-A")</code>, or <code>null</code> if that
    796      * call fails.
    797      *
    798      * <p>Subclasses with knowledge of their inverse may wish to
    799      * override this method.
    800      *
    801      * @param status Output param to filled in with a success or an error.
    802      * @return a transliterator that is an inverse, not necessarily
    803      * exact, of this transliterator, or <code>null</code> if no such
    804      * transliterator is registered.
    805      * @see #registerInstance
    806      * @stable ICU 2.0
    807      */
    808     Transliterator* createInverse(UErrorCode& status) const;
    809 
    810     /**
    811      * Returns a <code>Transliterator</code> object given its ID.
    812      * The ID must be either a system transliterator ID or a ID registered
    813      * using <code>registerInstance()</code>.
    814      *
    815      * @param ID a valid ID, as enumerated by <code>getAvailableIDs()</code>
    816      * @param dir        either FORWARD or REVERSE.
    817      * @param parseError Struct to recieve information on position
    818      *                   of error if an error is encountered
    819      * @param status     Output param to filled in with a success or an error.
    820      * @return A <code>Transliterator</code> object with the given ID
    821      * @see #registerInstance
    822      * @see #getAvailableIDs
    823      * @see #getID
    824      * @stable ICU 2.0
    825      */
    826     static Transliterator* U_EXPORT2 createInstance(const UnicodeString& ID,
    827                                           UTransDirection dir,
    828                                           UParseError& parseError,
    829                                           UErrorCode& status);
    830 
    831     /**
    832      * Returns a <code>Transliterator</code> object given its ID.
    833      * The ID must be either a system transliterator ID or a ID registered
    834      * using <code>registerInstance()</code>.
    835      * @param ID a valid ID, as enumerated by <code>getAvailableIDs()</code>
    836      * @param dir        either FORWARD or REVERSE.
    837      * @param status     Output param to filled in with a success or an error.
    838      * @return A <code>Transliterator</code> object with the given ID
    839      * @stable ICU 2.0
    840      */
    841     static Transliterator* U_EXPORT2 createInstance(const UnicodeString& ID,
    842                                           UTransDirection dir,
    843                                           UErrorCode& status);
    844 
    845     /**
    846      * Returns a <code>Transliterator</code> object constructed from
    847      * the given rule string.  This will be a RuleBasedTransliterator,
    848      * if the rule string contains only rules, or a
    849      * CompoundTransliterator, if it contains ID blocks, or a
    850      * NullTransliterator, if it contains ID blocks which parse as
    851      * empty for the given direction.
    852      * @param ID            the id for the transliterator.
    853      * @param rules         rules, separated by ';'
    854      * @param dir           either FORWARD or REVERSE.
    855      * @param parseError    Struct to recieve information on position
    856      *                      of error if an error is encountered
    857      * @param status        Output param set to success/failure code.
    858      * @stable ICU 2.0
    859      */
    860     static Transliterator* U_EXPORT2 createFromRules(const UnicodeString& ID,
    861                                            const UnicodeString& rules,
    862                                            UTransDirection dir,
    863                                            UParseError& parseError,
    864                                            UErrorCode& status);
    865 
    866     /**
    867      * Create a rule string that can be passed to createFromRules()
    868      * to recreate this transliterator.
    869      * @param result the string to receive the rules.  Previous
    870      * contents will be deleted.
    871      * @param escapeUnprintable if TRUE then convert unprintable
    872      * character to their hex escape representations, \\uxxxx or
    873      * \\Uxxxxxxxx.  Unprintable characters are those other than
    874      * U+000A, U+0020..U+007E.
    875      * @stable ICU 2.0
    876      */
    877     virtual UnicodeString& toRules(UnicodeString& result,
    878                                    UBool escapeUnprintable) const;
    879 
    880     /**
    881      * Return the number of elements that make up this transliterator.
    882      * For example, if the transliterator "NFD;Jamo-Latin;Latin-Greek"
    883      * were created, the return value of this method would be 3.
    884      *
    885      * <p>If this transliterator is not composed of other
    886      * transliterators, then this method returns 1.
    887      * @return the number of transliterators that compose this
    888      * transliterator, or 1 if this transliterator is not composed of
    889      * multiple transliterators
    890      * @stable ICU 3.0
    891      */
    892     int32_t countElements() const;
    893 
    894     /**
    895      * Return an element that makes up this transliterator.  For
    896      * example, if the transliterator "NFD;Jamo-Latin;Latin-Greek"
    897      * were created, the return value of this method would be one
    898      * of the three transliterator objects that make up that
    899      * transliterator: [NFD, Jamo-Latin, Latin-Greek].
    900      *
    901      * <p>If this transliterator is not composed of other
    902      * transliterators, then this method will return a reference to
    903      * this transliterator when given the index 0.
    904      * @param index a value from 0..countElements()-1 indicating the
    905      * transliterator to return
    906      * @param ec input-output error code
    907      * @return one of the transliterators that makes up this
    908      * transliterator, if this transliterator is made up of multiple
    909      * transliterators, otherwise a reference to this object if given
    910      * an index of 0
    911      * @stable ICU 3.0
    912      */
    913     const Transliterator& getElement(int32_t index, UErrorCode& ec) const;
    914 
    915     /**
    916      * Returns the set of all characters that may be modified in the
    917      * input text by this Transliterator.  This incorporates this
    918      * object's current filter; if the filter is changed, the return
    919      * value of this function will change.  The default implementation
    920      * returns an empty set.  Some subclasses may override {@link
    921      * #handleGetSourceSet } to return a more precise result.  The
    922      * return result is approximate in any case and is intended for
    923      * use by tests, tools, or utilities.
    924      * @param result receives result set; previous contents lost
    925      * @return a reference to result
    926      * @see #getTargetSet
    927      * @see #handleGetSourceSet
    928      * @stable ICU 2.4
    929      */
    930     UnicodeSet& getSourceSet(UnicodeSet& result) const;
    931 
    932     /**
    933      * Framework method that returns the set of all characters that
    934      * may be modified in the input text by this Transliterator,
    935      * ignoring the effect of this object's filter.  The base class
    936      * implementation returns the empty set.  Subclasses that wish to
    937      * implement this should override this method.
    938      * @return the set of characters that this transliterator may
    939      * modify.  The set may be modified, so subclasses should return a
    940      * newly-created object.
    941      * @param result receives result set; previous contents lost
    942      * @see #getSourceSet
    943      * @see #getTargetSet
    944      * @stable ICU 2.4
    945      */
    946     virtual void handleGetSourceSet(UnicodeSet& result) const;
    947 
    948     /**
    949      * Returns the set of all characters that may be generated as
    950      * replacement text by this transliterator.  The default
    951      * implementation returns the empty set.  Some subclasses may
    952      * override this method to return a more precise result.  The
    953      * return result is approximate in any case and is intended for
    954      * use by tests, tools, or utilities requiring such
    955      * meta-information.
    956      * @param result receives result set; previous contents lost
    957      * @return a reference to result
    958      * @see #getTargetSet
    959      * @stable ICU 2.4
    960      */
    961     virtual UnicodeSet& getTargetSet(UnicodeSet& result) const;
    962 
    963 public:
    964 
    965     /**
    966      * Registers a factory function that creates transliterators of
    967      * a given ID.
    968      *
    969      * Because ICU may choose to cache Transliterators internally, this must
    970      * be called at application startup, prior to any calls to
    971      * Transliterator::createXXX to avoid undefined behavior.
    972      *
    973      * @param id the ID being registered
    974      * @param factory a function pointer that will be copied and
    975      * called later when the given ID is passed to createInstance()
    976      * @param context a context pointer that will be stored and
    977      * later passed to the factory function when an ID matching
    978      * the registration ID is being instantiated with this factory.
    979      * @stable ICU 2.0
    980      */
    981     static void U_EXPORT2 registerFactory(const UnicodeString& id,
    982                                 Factory factory,
    983                                 Token context);
    984 
    985     /**
    986      * Registers an instance <tt>obj</tt> of a subclass of
    987      * <code>Transliterator</code> with the system.  When
    988      * <tt>createInstance()</tt> is called with an ID string that is
    989      * equal to <tt>obj->getID()</tt>, then <tt>obj->clone()</tt> is
    990      * returned.
    991      *
    992      * After this call the Transliterator class owns the adoptedObj
    993      * and will delete it.
    994      *
    995      * Because ICU may choose to cache Transliterators internally, this must
    996      * be called at application startup, prior to any calls to
    997      * Transliterator::createXXX to avoid undefined behavior.
    998      *
    999      * @param adoptedObj an instance of subclass of
   1000      * <code>Transliterator</code> that defines <tt>clone()</tt>
   1001      * @see #createInstance
   1002      * @see #registerFactory
   1003      * @see #unregister
   1004      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1005      */
   1006     static void U_EXPORT2 registerInstance(Transliterator* adoptedObj);
   1007 
   1008     /**
   1009      * Registers an ID string as an alias of another ID string.
   1010      * That is, after calling this function, <tt>createInstance(aliasID)</tt>
   1011      * will return the same thing as <tt>createInstance(realID)</tt>.
   1012      * This is generally used to create shorter, more mnemonic aliases
   1013      * for long compound IDs.
   1014      *
   1015      * @param aliasID The new ID being registered.
   1016      * @param realID The ID that the new ID is to be an alias for.
   1017      * This can be a compound ID and can include filters and should
   1018      * refer to transliterators that have already been registered with
   1019      * the framework, although this isn't checked.
   1020      * @stable ICU 3.6
   1021      */
   1022      static void U_EXPORT2 registerAlias(const UnicodeString& aliasID,
   1023                                          const UnicodeString& realID);
   1024 
   1025 protected:
   1026 
   1027 #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
   1028     /**
   1029      * @param id the ID being registered
   1030      * @param factory a function pointer that will be copied and
   1031      * called later when the given ID is passed to createInstance()
   1032      * @param context a context pointer that will be stored and
   1033      * later passed to the factory function when an ID matching
   1034      * the registration ID is being instantiated with this factory.
   1035      * @internal
   1036      */
   1037     static void _registerFactory(const UnicodeString& id,
   1038                                  Factory factory,
   1039                                  Token context);
   1040 
   1041     /**
   1042      * @internal
   1043      */
   1044     static void _registerInstance(Transliterator* adoptedObj);
   1045 
   1046     /**
   1047      * @internal
   1048      */
   1049     static void _registerAlias(const UnicodeString& aliasID, const UnicodeString& realID);
   1050 
   1051     /**
   1052      * Register two targets as being inverses of one another.  For
   1053      * example, calling registerSpecialInverse("NFC", "NFD", true) causes
   1054      * Transliterator to form the following inverse relationships:
   1055      *
   1056      * <pre>NFC => NFD
   1057      * Any-NFC => Any-NFD
   1058      * NFD => NFC
   1059      * Any-NFD => Any-NFC</pre>
   1060      *
   1061      * (Without the special inverse registration, the inverse of NFC
   1062      * would be NFC-Any.)  Note that NFD is shorthand for Any-NFD, but
   1063      * that the presence or absence of "Any-" is preserved.
   1064      *
   1065      * <p>The relationship is symmetrical; registering (a, b) is
   1066      * equivalent to registering (b, a).
   1067      *
   1068      * <p>The relevant IDs must still be registered separately as
   1069      * factories or classes.
   1070      *
   1071      * <p>Only the targets are specified.  Special inverses always
   1072      * have the form Any-Target1 <=> Any-Target2.  The target should
   1073      * have canonical casing (the casing desired to be produced when
   1074      * an inverse is formed) and should contain no whitespace or other
   1075      * extraneous characters.
   1076      *
   1077      * @param target the target against which to register the inverse
   1078      * @param inverseTarget the inverse of target, that is
   1079      * Any-target.getInverse() => Any-inverseTarget
   1080      * @param bidirectional if true, register the reverse relation
   1081      * as well, that is, Any-inverseTarget.getInverse() => Any-target
   1082      * @internal
   1083      */
   1084     static void _registerSpecialInverse(const UnicodeString& target,
   1085                                         const UnicodeString& inverseTarget,
   1086                                         UBool bidirectional);
   1087 #endif  /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
   1088 
   1089 public:
   1090 
   1091     /**
   1092      * Unregisters a transliterator or class.  This may be either
   1093      * a system transliterator or a user transliterator or class.
   1094      * Any attempt to construct an unregistered transliterator based
   1095      * on its ID will fail.
   1096      *
   1097      * Because ICU may choose to cache Transliterators internally, this should
   1098      * be called during application shutdown, after all calls to
   1099      * Transliterator::createXXX to avoid undefined behavior.
   1100      *
   1101      * @param ID the ID of the transliterator or class
   1102      * @return the <code>Object</code> that was registered with
   1103      * <code>ID</code>, or <code>null</code> if none was
   1104      * @see #registerInstance
   1105      * @see #registerFactory
   1106      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1107      */
   1108     static void U_EXPORT2 unregister(const UnicodeString& ID);
   1109 
   1110 public:
   1111 
   1112     /**
   1113      * Return a StringEnumeration over the IDs available at the time of the
   1114      * call, including user-registered IDs.
   1115      * @param ec input-output error code
   1116      * @return a newly-created StringEnumeration over the transliterators
   1117      * available at the time of the call. The caller should delete this object
   1118      * when done using it.
   1119      * @stable ICU 3.0
   1120      */
   1121     static StringEnumeration* U_EXPORT2 getAvailableIDs(UErrorCode& ec);
   1122 
   1123     /**
   1124      * Return the number of registered source specifiers.
   1125      * @return the number of registered source specifiers.
   1126      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1127      */
   1128     static int32_t U_EXPORT2 countAvailableSources(void);
   1129 
   1130     /**
   1131      * Return a registered source specifier.
   1132      * @param index which specifier to return, from 0 to n-1, where
   1133      * n = countAvailableSources()
   1134      * @param result fill-in paramter to receive the source specifier.
   1135      * If index is out of range, result will be empty.
   1136      * @return reference to result
   1137      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1138      */
   1139     static UnicodeString& U_EXPORT2 getAvailableSource(int32_t index,
   1140                                              UnicodeString& result);
   1141 
   1142     /**
   1143      * Return the number of registered target specifiers for a given
   1144      * source specifier.
   1145      * @param source the given source specifier.
   1146      * @return the number of registered target specifiers for a given
   1147      *         source specifier.
   1148      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1149      */
   1150     static int32_t U_EXPORT2 countAvailableTargets(const UnicodeString& source);
   1151 
   1152     /**
   1153      * Return a registered target specifier for a given source.
   1154      * @param index which specifier to return, from 0 to n-1, where
   1155      * n = countAvailableTargets(source)
   1156      * @param source the source specifier
   1157      * @param result fill-in paramter to receive the target specifier.
   1158      * If source is invalid or if index is out of range, result will
   1159      * be empty.
   1160      * @return reference to result
   1161      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1162      */
   1163     static UnicodeString& U_EXPORT2 getAvailableTarget(int32_t index,
   1164                                              const UnicodeString& source,
   1165                                              UnicodeString& result);
   1166 
   1167     /**
   1168      * Return the number of registered variant specifiers for a given
   1169      * source-target pair.
   1170      * @param source    the source specifiers.
   1171      * @param target    the target specifiers.
   1172      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1173      */
   1174     static int32_t U_EXPORT2 countAvailableVariants(const UnicodeString& source,
   1175                                           const UnicodeString& target);
   1176 
   1177     /**
   1178      * Return a registered variant specifier for a given source-target
   1179      * pair.
   1180      * @param index which specifier to return, from 0 to n-1, where
   1181      * n = countAvailableVariants(source, target)
   1182      * @param source the source specifier
   1183      * @param target the target specifier
   1184      * @param result fill-in paramter to receive the variant
   1185      * specifier.  If source is invalid or if target is invalid or if
   1186      * index is out of range, result will be empty.
   1187      * @return reference to result
   1188      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1189      */
   1190     static UnicodeString& U_EXPORT2 getAvailableVariant(int32_t index,
   1191                                               const UnicodeString& source,
   1192                                               const UnicodeString& target,
   1193                                               UnicodeString& result);
   1194 
   1195 protected:
   1196 
   1197 #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
   1198     /**
   1199      * Non-mutexed internal method
   1200      * @internal
   1201      */
   1202     static int32_t _countAvailableSources(void);
   1203 
   1204     /**
   1205      * Non-mutexed internal method
   1206      * @internal
   1207      */
   1208     static UnicodeString& _getAvailableSource(int32_t index,
   1209                                               UnicodeString& result);
   1210 
   1211     /**
   1212      * Non-mutexed internal method
   1213      * @internal
   1214      */
   1215     static int32_t _countAvailableTargets(const UnicodeString& source);
   1216 
   1217     /**
   1218      * Non-mutexed internal method
   1219      * @internal
   1220      */
   1221     static UnicodeString& _getAvailableTarget(int32_t index,
   1222                                               const UnicodeString& source,
   1223                                               UnicodeString& result);
   1224 
   1225     /**
   1226      * Non-mutexed internal method
   1227      * @internal
   1228      */
   1229     static int32_t _countAvailableVariants(const UnicodeString& source,
   1230                                            const UnicodeString& target);
   1231 
   1232     /**
   1233      * Non-mutexed internal method
   1234      * @internal
   1235      */
   1236     static UnicodeString& _getAvailableVariant(int32_t index,
   1237                                                const UnicodeString& source,
   1238                                                const UnicodeString& target,
   1239                                                UnicodeString& result);
   1240 #endif  /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
   1241 
   1242 protected:
   1243 
   1244     /**
   1245      * Set the ID of this transliterators.  Subclasses shouldn't do
   1246      * this, unless the underlying script behavior has changed.
   1247      * @param id the new id t to be set.
   1248      * @stable ICU 2.4
   1249      */
   1250     void setID(const UnicodeString& id);
   1251 
   1252 public:
   1253 
   1254     /**
   1255      * Return the class ID for this class.  This is useful only for
   1256      * comparing to a return value from getDynamicClassID().
   1257      * Note that Transliterator is an abstract base class, and therefor
   1258      * no fully constructed object will  have a dynamic
   1259      * UCLassID that equals the UClassID returned from
   1260      * TRansliterator::getStaticClassID().
   1261      * @return       The class ID for class Transliterator.
   1262      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1263      */
   1264     static UClassID U_EXPORT2 getStaticClassID(void);
   1265 
   1266     /**
   1267      * Returns a unique class ID <b>polymorphically</b>.  This method
   1268      * is to implement a simple version of RTTI, since not all C++
   1269      * compilers support genuine RTTI.  Polymorphic operator==() and
   1270      * clone() methods call this method.
   1271      *
   1272      * <p>Concrete subclasses of Transliterator must use the
   1273      *    UOBJECT_DEFINE_RTTI_IMPLEMENTATION macro from
   1274      *    uobject.h to provide the RTTI functions.
   1275      *
   1276      * @return The class ID for this object. All objects of a given
   1277      * class have the same class ID.  Objects of other classes have
   1278      * different class IDs.
   1279      * @stable ICU 2.0
   1280      */
   1281     virtual UClassID getDynamicClassID(void) const = 0;
   1282 
   1283 private:
   1284     static UBool initializeRegistry(UErrorCode &status);
   1285 
   1286 public:
   1287 #ifndef U_HIDE_OBSOLETE_API
   1288     /**
   1289      * Return the number of IDs currently registered with the system.
   1290      * To retrieve the actual IDs, call getAvailableID(i) with
   1291      * i from 0 to countAvailableIDs() - 1.
   1292      * @return the number of IDs currently registered with the system.
   1293      * @obsolete ICU 3.4 use getAvailableIDs() instead
   1294      */
   1295     static int32_t U_EXPORT2 countAvailableIDs(void);
   1296 
   1297     /**
   1298      * Return the index-th available ID.  index must be between 0
   1299      * and countAvailableIDs() - 1, inclusive.  If index is out of
   1300      * range, the result of getAvailableID(0) is returned.
   1301      * @param index the given ID index.
   1302      * @return      the index-th available ID.  index must be between 0
   1303      *              and countAvailableIDs() - 1, inclusive.  If index is out of
   1304      *              range, the result of getAvailableID(0) is returned.
   1305      * @obsolete ICU 3.4 use getAvailableIDs() instead; this function
   1306      * is not thread safe, since it returns a reference to storage that
   1307      * may become invalid if another thread calls unregister
   1308      */
   1309     static const UnicodeString& U_EXPORT2 getAvailableID(int32_t index);
   1310 #endif  /* U_HIDE_OBSOLETE_API */
   1311 };
   1312 
   1313 inline int32_t Transliterator::getMaximumContextLength(void) const {
   1314     return maximumContextLength;
   1315 }
   1316 
   1317 inline void Transliterator::setID(const UnicodeString& id) {
   1318     ID = id;
   1319     // NUL-terminate the ID string, which is a non-aliased copy.
   1320     ID.append((UChar)0);
   1321     ID.truncate(ID.length()-1);
   1322 }
   1323 
   1324 #ifndef U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API
   1325 inline Transliterator::Token Transliterator::integerToken(int32_t i) {
   1326     Token t;
   1327     t.integer = i;
   1328     return t;
   1329 }
   1330 
   1331 inline Transliterator::Token Transliterator::pointerToken(void* p) {
   1332     Token t;
   1333     t.pointer = p;
   1334     return t;
   1335 }
   1336 #endif  /* U_HIDE_INTERNAL_API */
   1337 
   1338 U_NAMESPACE_END
   1339 
   1340 #endif /* #if !UCONFIG_NO_TRANSLITERATION */
   1341 
   1342 #endif
   1343