utf8.h

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#ifndef INCLUDED_UTF8
#define INCLUDED_UTF8

// note: error codes are returned via optional output parameter.
namespace ERR
{
    const Status UTF8_SURROGATE     = -100700;
    const Status UTF8_OUTSIDE_BMP   = -100701;
    const Status UTF8_NONCHARACTER  = -100702;
    const Status UTF8_INVALID_UTF8  = -100703;
}

/**
 * convert UTF-8 to a wide string (UTF-16 or UCS-4, depending on the
 * platform's wchar_t).
 *
 * @param s input string (UTF-8)
 * @param err if nonzero, this receives the first error encountered
 * (the rest may be subsequent faults) or INFO::OK if all went well.
 * otherwise, the function raises a warning dialog for every
 * error/warning.
 **/
LIB_API std::wstring wstring_from_utf8(const std::string& s, Status* err = 0);

/**
 * opposite of wstring_from_utf8
 **/
LIB_API std::string utf8_from_wstring(const std::wstring& s, Status* err = 0);

#endif  // #ifndef INCLUDED_UTF8