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diff --git a/include/linux/nls.h b/include/linux/nls.h new file mode 100644 index 0000000000..62fb7b5a97 --- /dev/null +++ b/include/linux/nls.h @@ -0,0 +1,40 @@ +/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 */ +#ifndef _LINUX_NLS_H +#define _LINUX_NLS_H + +/* Unicode has changed over the years. Unicode code points no longer + * fit into 16 bits; as of Unicode 5 valid code points range from 0 + * to 0x10ffff (17 planes, where each plane holds 65536 code points). + * + * The original decision to represent Unicode characters as 16-bit + * wchar_t values is now outdated. But plane 0 still includes the + * most commonly used characters, so we will retain it. The newer + * 32-bit unicode_t type can be used when it is necessary to + * represent the full Unicode character set. + */ + +/* Plane-0 Unicode character */ +typedef u16 wchar_t; +#define MAX_WCHAR_T 0xffff + +/* Arbitrary Unicode character */ +typedef u32 unicode_t; + +/* this value hold the maximum octet of charset */ +#define NLS_MAX_CHARSET_SIZE 6 /* for UTF-8 */ + +/* Byte order for UTF-16 strings */ +enum utf16_endian { + UTF16_HOST_ENDIAN, + UTF16_LITTLE_ENDIAN, + UTF16_BIG_ENDIAN +}; + +/* nls_base.c */ + +extern int utf8_to_utf32(const u8 *s, int len, unicode_t *pu); +extern int utf8s_to_utf16s(const u8 *s, int len, + enum utf16_endian endian, wchar_t *pwcs, int maxlen); + +#endif /* _LINUX_NLS_H */ + |