Version: 3.1.0
wxEncodingConverter Class Reference

#include <wx/encconv.h>

+ Inheritance diagram for wxEncodingConverter:

Detailed Description

This class is capable of converting strings between two 8-bit encodings/charsets.

It can also convert from/to Unicode.

Only a limited subset of encodings is supported by wxEncodingConverter: wxFONTENCODING_ISO8859_1..15, wxFONTENCODING_CP1250..1257 and wxFONTENCODING_KOI8.

Note
Please use wxMBConv classes instead if possible. wxCSConv has much better support for various encodings than wxEncodingConverter. wxEncodingConverter is useful only if you rely on wxCONVERT_SUBSTITUTE mode of operation (see wxEncodingConverter::Init()).

Library:  wxBase
Category:  Text Conversion
See also
wxFontMapper, wxMBConv, Writing Non-English Applications

Public Member Functions

 wxEncodingConverter ()
 Constructor. More...
 
bool Init (wxFontEncoding input_enc, wxFontEncoding output_enc, int method=wxCONVERT_STRICT)
 Initialize the conversion. More...
 
Conversion functions
bool Convert (const char *input, char *output) const
 Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output. More...
 
bool Convert (const wchar_t *input, wchar_t *output) const
 Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output. More...
 
bool Convert (const char *input, wchar_t *output) const
 Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output. More...
 
bool Convert (const wchar_t *input, char *output) const
 Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output. More...
 
bool Convert (char *str) const
 Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() in-place. More...
 
bool Convert (wchar_t *str) const
 Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() in-place. More...
 
wxString Convert (const wxString &input) const
 Convert a wxString and return a new wxString object. More...
 
- Public Member Functions inherited from wxObject
 wxObject ()
 Default ctor; initializes to NULL the internal reference data. More...
 
 wxObject (const wxObject &other)
 Copy ctor. More...
 
virtual ~wxObject ()
 Destructor. More...
 
virtual wxClassInfoGetClassInfo () const
 This virtual function is redefined for every class that requires run-time type information, when using the wxDECLARE_CLASS macro (or similar). More...
 
wxObjectRefDataGetRefData () const
 Returns the wxObject::m_refData pointer, i.e. the data referenced by this object. More...
 
bool IsKindOf (const wxClassInfo *info) const
 Determines whether this class is a subclass of (or the same class as) the given class. More...
 
bool IsSameAs (const wxObject &obj) const
 Returns true if this object has the same data pointer as obj. More...
 
void Ref (const wxObject &clone)
 Makes this object refer to the data in clone. More...
 
void SetRefData (wxObjectRefData *data)
 Sets the wxObject::m_refData pointer. More...
 
void UnRef ()
 Decrements the reference count in the associated data, and if it is zero, deletes the data. More...
 
void UnShare ()
 This is the same of AllocExclusive() but this method is public. More...
 
void operator delete (void *buf)
 The delete operator is defined for debugging versions of the library only, when the identifier WXDEBUG is defined. More...
 
void * operator new (size_t size, const wxString &filename=NULL, int lineNum=0)
 The new operator is defined for debugging versions of the library only, when the identifier WXDEBUG is defined. More...
 

Static Public Member Functions

static bool CanConvert (wxFontEncoding encIn, wxFontEncoding encOut)
 Return true if (any text in) multibyte encoding encIn can be converted to another one (encOut) losslessly. More...
 
static wxFontEncodingArray GetAllEquivalents (wxFontEncoding enc)
 Similar to GetPlatformEquivalents(), but this one will return ALL equivalent encodings, regardless of the platform, and including itself. More...
 
static wxFontEncodingArray GetPlatformEquivalents (wxFontEncoding enc, int platform=wxPLATFORM_CURRENT)
 Return equivalents for given font that are used under given platform. More...
 

Additional Inherited Members

- Protected Member Functions inherited from wxObject
void AllocExclusive ()
 Ensure that this object's data is not shared with any other object. More...
 
virtual wxObjectRefDataCreateRefData () const
 Creates a new instance of the wxObjectRefData-derived class specific to this object and returns it. More...
 
virtual wxObjectRefDataCloneRefData (const wxObjectRefData *data) const
 Creates a new instance of the wxObjectRefData-derived class specific to this object and initializes it copying data. More...
 
- Protected Attributes inherited from wxObject
wxObjectRefDatam_refData
 Pointer to an object which is the object's reference-counted data. More...
 

Constructor & Destructor Documentation

wxEncodingConverter::wxEncodingConverter ( )

Constructor.

Member Function Documentation

static bool wxEncodingConverter::CanConvert ( wxFontEncoding  encIn,
wxFontEncoding  encOut 
)
static

Return true if (any text in) multibyte encoding encIn can be converted to another one (encOut) losslessly.

Do not call this method with wxFONTENCODING_UNICODE as either parameter, it doesn't make sense (always works in one sense and always depends on the text to convert in the other).

bool wxEncodingConverter::Convert ( const char *  input,
char *  output 
) const

Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output.

All the Convert() function overloads return true if the conversion was lossless and false if at least one of the characters couldn't be converted was and replaced with '?' in the output.

Note that if wxCONVERT_SUBSTITUTE was passed to Init(), substitution is considered a lossless operation.

Note
You must call Init() before using this method!
bool wxEncodingConverter::Convert ( const wchar_t *  input,
wchar_t *  output 
) const

Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output.

All the Convert() function overloads return true if the conversion was lossless and false if at least one of the characters couldn't be converted was and replaced with '?' in the output.

Note that if wxCONVERT_SUBSTITUTE was passed to Init(), substitution is considered a lossless operation.

Note
You must call Init() before using this method!
bool wxEncodingConverter::Convert ( const char *  input,
wchar_t *  output 
) const

Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output.

All the Convert() function overloads return true if the conversion was lossless and false if at least one of the characters couldn't be converted was and replaced with '?' in the output.

Note that if wxCONVERT_SUBSTITUTE was passed to Init(), substitution is considered a lossless operation.

Note
You must call Init() before using this method!
bool wxEncodingConverter::Convert ( const wchar_t *  input,
char *  output 
) const

Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() and writes the result to output.

All the Convert() function overloads return true if the conversion was lossless and false if at least one of the characters couldn't be converted was and replaced with '?' in the output.

Note that if wxCONVERT_SUBSTITUTE was passed to Init(), substitution is considered a lossless operation.

Note
You must call Init() before using this method!
bool wxEncodingConverter::Convert ( char *  str) const

Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() in-place.

With this overload, the conversion result is written to the same memory area from which the input is read.

See the Convert(const char*,char*) const overload for more info.

bool wxEncodingConverter::Convert ( wchar_t *  str) const

Convert input string according to settings passed to Init() in-place.

With this overload, the conversion result is written to the same memory area from which the input is read.

See the Convert(const wchar_t*,wchar_t*) const overload for more info.

wxString wxEncodingConverter::Convert ( const wxString input) const

Convert a wxString and return a new wxString object.

See the Convert(const char*,char*) const overload for more info.

static wxFontEncodingArray wxEncodingConverter::GetAllEquivalents ( wxFontEncoding  enc)
static

Similar to GetPlatformEquivalents(), but this one will return ALL equivalent encodings, regardless of the platform, and including itself.

This platform's encodings are before others in the array. And again, if enc is in the array, it is the very first item in it.

static wxFontEncodingArray wxEncodingConverter::GetPlatformEquivalents ( wxFontEncoding  enc,
int  platform = wxPLATFORM_CURRENT 
)
static

Return equivalents for given font that are used under given platform.

Supported platforms:

  • wxPLATFORM_UNIX
  • wxPLATFORM_WINDOWS
  • wxPLATFORM_MAC
  • wxPLATFORM_CURRENT

wxPLATFORM_CURRENT means the platform this binary was compiled for.

Examples:

current platform   enc          returned value
----------------------------------------------
unix            CP1250             {ISO8859_2}
unix         ISO8859_2             {ISO8859_2}
windows      ISO8859_2                {CP1250}
unix            CP1252  {ISO8859_1,ISO8859_15}

Equivalence is defined in terms of convertibility: two encodings are equivalent if you can convert text between then without losing information (it may - and will - happen that you lose special chars like quotation marks or em-dashes but you shouldn't lose any diacritics and language-specific characters when converting between equivalent encodings).

Remember that this function does NOT check for presence of fonts in system. It only tells you what are most suitable encodings. (It usually returns only one encoding.)

Note
Note that argument enc itself may be present in the returned array, so that you can, as a side-effect, detect whether the encoding is native for this platform or not.
Convert() is not limited to converting between equivalent encodings, it can convert between two arbitrary encodings.
If enc is present in the returned array, then it is always the first item of it.
Please note that the returned array may contain no items at all.
bool wxEncodingConverter::Init ( wxFontEncoding  input_enc,
wxFontEncoding  output_enc,
int  method = wxCONVERT_STRICT 
)

Initialize the conversion.

Both output or input encoding may be wxFONTENCODING_UNICODE, but only if wxUSE_ENCODING is set to 1.

All subsequent calls to Convert() will interpret its argument as a string in input_enc encoding and will output string in output_enc encoding.

You must call this method before calling Convert. You may call it more than once in order to switch to another conversion.

method affects behaviour of Convert() in case input character cannot be converted because it does not exist in output encoding:

  • wxCONVERT_STRICT: follow behaviour of GNU Recode - just copy unconvertible characters to output and don't change them (its integer value will stay the same)
  • wxCONVERT_SUBSTITUTE: try some (lossy) substitutions - e.g. replace unconvertible latin capitals with acute by ordinary capitals, replace en-dash or em-dash by '-' etc.

Both modes guarantee that output string will have same length as input string.

Returns
false if given conversion is impossible, true otherwise (conversion may be impossible either if you try to convert to Unicode with non-Unicode build of wxWidgets or if input or output encoding is not supported).