Added the UTF-8, UTF-16 and ISO Lat 1 conversion routines, not yet used, Daniel.
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+/*
+ * encoding.c : implements the encoding conversion functions needed for XML
+ *
+ * Related specs: 
+ * rfc2044        (UTF-8 and UTF-16) F. Yergeau Alis Technologies
+ * [ISO-10646]    UTF-8 and UTF-16 in Annexes
+ * [ISO-8859-1]   ISO Latin-1 characters codes.
+ * [UNICODE]      The Unicode Consortium, "The Unicode Standard --
+ *                Worldwide Character Encoding -- Version 1.0", Addison-
+ *                Wesley, Volume 1, 1991, Volume 2, 1992.  UTF-8 is
+ *                described in Unicode Technical Report #4.
+ * [US-ASCII]     Coded Character Set--7-bit American Standard Code for
+ *                Information Interchange, ANSI X3.4-1986.
+ *
+ * Original code from "Martin J. Duerst" <duerst@w3.org>
+ *
+ * See Copyright for the status of this software.
+ *
+ * $Id$
+ *
+ * Daniel.Veillard@w3.org
+ */
+
+#include "encoding.h"
+
+/*
+ * Take a block of ISO Latin 1 chars in and try to convert it to an UTF-8
+ * block of chars out.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of byte written, or -1 by lack of space.
+ */
+int isolat1ToUTF8(unsigned char* out, int outlen, unsigned char* in, int inlen)
+{
+    unsigned char* outstart= out;
+    unsigned char* outend= out+outlen;
+    unsigned char* inend= in+inlen;
+    unsigned char c;
+
+    while (in < inend) {
+        c= *in++;
+        if (c < 0x80) {
+            if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+            *out++ = c;
+        }
+        else {
+            if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+            *out++ = 0xC0 | (c >> 6);
+            if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+            *out++ = 0x80 | (0x3F & c);
+        }
+    }
+    return out-outstart;
+}
+
+
+/*
+ * Take a block of UTF-8 chars in and try to convert it to an ISO Latin 1
+ * block of chars out.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of byte written, or -1 by lack of space, or -2
+ *     if the transcoding failed.
+ *
+ * TODO: need a fallback mechanism ...
+ */
+int UTF8Toisolat1(unsigned char* out, int outlen, unsigned char* in, int inlen)
+{
+    unsigned char* outstart= out;
+    unsigned char* outend= out+outlen;
+    unsigned char* inend= in+inlen;
+    unsigned char c, d;
+
+    while (in < inend) {
+        c= *in++;
+        if (c < 0x80) {
+            if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+            *out++= c;
+        }
+        else if (((c & 0xFE) == 0xC2) && in<inend) {
+            if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+            *out++= ((c & 0x03) << 6) | (*in++ & 0x3F);
+        }
+        else  return -2;
+    }
+    return out-outstart;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Take a block of UTF-16 ushorts in and try to convert it to an UTF-8
+ * block of chars out.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of byte written, or -1 by lack of space.
+ */
+int UTF16ToUTF8(unsigned char* out, int outlen, unsigned short* in, int inlen)
+{
+    unsigned char* outstart= out;
+    unsigned char* outend= out+outlen;
+    unsigned short* inend= in+inlen;
+    unsigned int c, d;
+    int bits;
+
+    while (in < inend) {
+        c= *in++;
+        if ((c & 0xFC00) == 0xD800) {    /* surrogates */
+            if ((in<inend) && (((d=*in++) & 0xFC00) == 0xDC00)) {
+                c &= 0x03FF;
+                c <<= 10;
+                c |= d & 0x03FF;
+                c += 0x10000;
+            }
+            else  return -1;
+        }
+
+      /* assertion: c is a single UTF-4 value */
+
+        if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+        if      (c <    0x80) {  *out++=  c;                bits= -6; }
+        else if (c <   0x800) {  *out++= (c >>  6) | 0xC0;  bits=  0; }
+        else if (c < 0x10000) {  *out++= (c >> 12) | 0xE0;  bits=  6; }
+        else                  {  *out++= (c >> 18) | 0xF0;  bits= 12; }
+ 
+        for ( ; bits < 0; bits-= 6) {
+            if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+            *out++= (c >> bits) & 0x3F;
+        }
+    }
+    return out-outstart;
+}
+
+/*
+ * Take a block of UTF-8 chars in and try to convert it to an UTF-16
+ * block of chars out.
+ *
+ * Returns the number of byte written, or -1 by lack of space, or -2
+ *     if the transcoding failed.
+ *
+ * TODO: need a fallback mechanism ...
+ */
+int UTF8ToUTF16(unsigned short* out, int outlen, unsigned char* in, int inlen)
+{
+    unsigned short* outstart= out;
+    unsigned short* outend= out+outlen;
+    unsigned char* inend= in+inlen;
+    unsigned int c, d, trailing;
+
+    while (in < inend) {
+      d= *in++;
+      if      (d < 0x80)  { c= d; trailing= 0; }
+      else if (d < 0xC0)  return -2;    /* trailing byte in leading position */
+      else if (d < 0xE0)  { c= d & 0x1F; trailing= 1; }
+      else if (d < 0xF0)  { c= d & 0x0F; trailing= 2; }
+      else if (d < 0xF8)  { c= d & 0x07; trailing= 3; }
+      else return -2;    /* no chance for this in UTF-16 */
+
+      for ( ; trailing; trailing--) {
+          if ((in >= inend) || (((d= *in++) & 0xC0) != 0x80))  return -1;
+          c <<= 6;
+          c |= d & 0x3F;
+      }
+
+      /* assertion: c is a single UTF-4 value */
+        if (c < 0x10000) {
+            if (out >= outend)  return -1;
+            *out++ = c;
+        }
+        else if (c < 0x110000) {
+            if (out+1 >= outend)  return -1;
+            c -= 0x10000;
+            *out++ = 0xD800 | (c >> 10);
+            *out++ = 0xDC00 | (c & 0x03FF);
+        }
+        else  return -1;
+    }
+    return out-outstart;
+}
+