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+/* PSPP - a program for statistical analysis.
+ Copyright (C) 2010, 2011 Free Software Foundation, Inc.
+
+ This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>. */
+
+#ifndef LIBPSPP_U8_ISTREAM_H
+#define LIBPSPP_U8_ISTREAM_H 1
+
+#include <sys/types.h>
+#include <stdbool.h>
+
+/* u8_istream.
+
+ Reads a text file and reencodes its contents into UTF-8, with optional
+ automatic encoding detection.
+*/
+
+#define U8_ISTREAM_BUFFER_SIZE 4096
+
+struct u8_istream *u8_istream_for_fd (const char *fromcode, int fd);
+struct u8_istream *u8_istream_for_file (const char *fromcode,
+ const char *filename, int flags);
+
+int u8_istream_close (struct u8_istream *);
+void u8_istream_free (struct u8_istream *);
+
+ssize_t u8_istream_read (struct u8_istream *, char *, size_t);
+
+int u8_istream_fileno (const struct u8_istream *);
+
+bool u8_istream_is_auto (const struct u8_istream *);
+bool u8_istream_is_utf8 (const struct u8_istream *);
+
+#endif /* libpspp/u8-istream.h */