1 /* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
2 Copyright (C) 2011, 2012 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
4 This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
5 it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
6 the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
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10 but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
11 MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
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17 #ifndef LIBPSPP_ENCODING_GUESSER_H
18 #define LIBPSPP_ENCODING_GUESSER_H 1
24 /* A library for autodetecting the encoding of a text file.
29 The encoding guesser starts with an encoding name in one of various
30 different forms. Some of the forms do not actually do any autodetection.
31 The encoding guesser will return the specified encoding without looking at
34 - A valid IANA or system encoding name: These are returned as-is.
36 - "Locale": Translated to the encoding used by the system locale, as
37 returned by locale_charset().
39 The remaining forms that do perform autodetection are:
41 - "Auto," followed by a valid IANA or system encoding name (the "fallback
42 encoding"): Requests detection whether the input is encoded in UTF-8,
43 UTF-16, UTF-32, or a few other easily identifiable charsets. When a
44 particular character set cannot be recognized, the guesser falls back to
45 the encoding following the comma. When the fallback encoding is UTF-8,
46 but the input is invalid UTF-8, then the windows-1252 encoding (closely
47 related to ISO 8859-1) is used instead. UTF-8 detection works only for
48 ASCII-compatible character sets.
50 - NULL or "Auto": As above, with the encoding used by the system locale as
51 the fallback encoding.
53 The above are suggested capitalizations but encoding names are not
56 The encoding_guess_parse_encoding() and encoding_guess_encoding_is_auto()
57 functions work with encoding names in these forms.
62 1. Call encoding_guess_head_encoding() with several bytes from the start of
63 the text file. Feed in at least ENCODING_GUESS_MIN bytes, unless the
64 file is shorter than that, but as many more as are conveniently
65 available. ENCODING_GUESS_SUGGESTED is a reasonable amount.
67 encoding_guess_head_encoding() returns its best guess at the file's
68 encoding. Ordinarily it returns a final guess that the client can use to
69 interpret the file, and you're all done. However, if it returns "ASCII"
70 and the original encoding name requests autodetection (which you can find
71 out by calling encoding_guess_encoding_is_auto()), then proceed to the
74 2. The encoding guesser is confident that the stream uses an ASCII
75 compatible encoding, either UTF-8 or the fallback encoding. The client
76 may safely read and process the stream up to the first non-ASCII
77 character. If the stream continues to be ASCII all the way to its end,
80 The encoding guesser provides a pair of functions to detect non-ASCII
81 characters: encoding_guess_is_ascii_text() for single characters and
82 encoding_guess_count_ascii() as a convenient wrapper for whole buffers.
84 3. Otherwise, the stream contains some non-ASCII data at some point. Now
85 the client should gather several bytes starting at this point, at least
86 ENCODING_GUESS_MIN, unless the file ends before that, but as many more as
87 are conveniently available. ENCODING_GUESS_SUGGESTED is a reasonable
90 The client should pass these bytes to encoding_guess_tail_encoding(),
91 which returns a best and final guess at the file's encoding, which is
92 either UTF-8 or the fallback encoding. Another alternative is
93 encoding_guess_tail_is_utf8(), which guesses the same way but has a
94 different form of return value.
97 /* Minimum number of bytes for use in autodetection.
98 You should only pass fewer bytes to the autodetection routines if the file
99 is actually shorter than this. */
100 #define ENCODING_GUESS_MIN 16
102 /* Suggested minimum buffer size to use for autodetection. */
103 #define ENCODING_GUESS_SUGGESTED 1024
105 /* Parsing encoding names. */
106 const char *encoding_guess_parse_encoding (const char *encoding);
107 bool encoding_guess_encoding_is_auto (const char *encoding);
109 /* Making an initial coding guess based on the start of a file. */
110 const char *encoding_guess_head_encoding (const char *encoding,
111 const void *, size_t);
113 /* Refining an initial ASCII coding guess using later non-ASCII bytes. */
114 static inline bool encoding_guess_is_ascii_text (uint8_t c);
115 size_t encoding_guess_count_ascii (const void *, size_t);
116 int encoding_guess_tail_is_utf8 (const void *, size_t);
117 const char *encoding_guess_tail_encoding (const char *encoding,
118 const void *, size_t);
120 /* Guessing from entire file contents. */
121 const char *encoding_guess_whole_file (const char *encoding,
122 const void *, size_t);
124 /* Returns true if C is a byte that might appear in an ASCII text file,
127 encoding_guess_is_ascii_text (uint8_t c)
129 return (c >= 0x20 && c < 0x7f) || (c >= 0x09 && c < 0x0e);
132 #endif /* libpspp/encoding-guesser.h */