TextEncoder

class TextEncoder

This class can be used to convert text between multiple representations, e.g. UTF-8 to UTF-16. You may use it as a static class object, passing the encoding each time, or you may create an instance and use that object, which will record the current encoding and retain the current string.

This class is also a base class of TextNode, which inherits this functionality.

Inheritance diagram

enum Encoding

enumerator E_iso8859 = 0

enumerator E_utf8 = 1

enumerator E_utf16be = 2

enumerator E_unicode = 2

Deprecated alias for E_utf16be

TextEncoder(void)

TextEncoder(TextEncoder const &copy)

void append_text(PyObject *text)

Appends the indicates string to the end of the stored text.

void append_unicode_char(char32_t character)

Appends a single character to the end of the stored text. This may be a wide character, up to 16 bits in Unicode.

void append_wtext(std::wstring const &text)

Appends the indicates string to the end of the stored wide-character text.

void clear_text(void)

Removes the text from the TextEncoder.

PyObject *decode_text(PyObject *text) const

static PyObject *decode_text(PyObject *text, Encoding encoding)

Returns the given wstring decoded to a single-byte string, via the current encoding system.

Returns the given wstring decoded to a single-byte string, via the given encoding system.

static PyObject *encode_wchar(char32_t ch, Encoding encoding)

Encodes a single Unicode character into a one-, two-, three-, or four-byte string, according to the given encoding system.

PyObject *encode_wtext(std::wstring const &wtext) const

static PyObject *encode_wtext(std::wstring const &wtext, Encoding encoding)

Encodes a wide-text string into a single-char string, according to the current encoding.

Encodes a wide-text string into a single-char string, according to the given encoding.

Encoding get_default_encoding(void)

Specifies the default encoding to be used for all subsequently created TextEncoder objects. See set_encoding().

std::string get_encoded_char(std::size_t index) const

std::string get_encoded_char(std::size_t index, Encoding encoding) const

Returns the nth char of the stored text, as a one-, two-, or three-byte encoded string.

Encoding get_encoding(void) const

Returns the encoding by which the string set via set_text() is to be interpreted. See set_encoding().

std::size_t get_num_chars(void) const

Returns the number of characters in the stored text. This is a count of wide characters, after the string has been decoded according to set_encoding().

PyObject *get_text(void) const

PyObject *get_text(TextEncoder::Encoding encoding) const

Returns the current text, as encoded via the current encoding system.

Returns the current text, as encoded via the indicated encoding system.

std::string get_text_as_ascii(void) const

Returns the text associated with the node, converted as nearly as possible to a fully-ASCII representation. This means replacing accented letters with their unaccented ASCII equivalents.

It is possible that some characters in the string cannot be converted to ASCII. (The string may involve symbols like the copyright symbol, for instance, or it might involve letters in some other alphabet such as Greek or Cyrillic, or even Latin letters like thorn or eth that are not part of the ASCII character set.) In this case, as much of the string as possible will be converted to ASCII, and the nonconvertible characters will remain encoded in the encoding specified by set_encoding().

int get_unicode_char(std::size_t index) const

Returns the Unicode value of the nth character in the stored text. This may be a wide character (greater than 255), after the string has been decoded according to set_encoding().

std::wstring const &get_wtext(void) const

Returns the text associated with the TextEncoder, as a wide-character string.

std::wstring get_wtext_as_ascii(void) const

Returns the text associated with the node, converted as nearly as possible to a fully-ASCII representation. This means replacing accented letters with their unaccented ASCII equivalents.

It is possible that some characters in the string cannot be converted to ASCII. (The string may involve symbols like the copyright symbol, for instance, or it might involve letters in some other alphabet such as Greek or Cyrillic, or even Latin letters like thorn or eth that are not part of the ASCII character set.) In this case, as much of the string as possible will be converted to ASCII, and the nonconvertible characters will remain in their original form.

bool has_text(void) const

bool is_wtext(void) const

Returns true if any of the characters in the string returned by get_wtext() are out of the range of an ASCII character (and, therefore, get_wtext() should be called in preference to get_text()).

std::string lower(std::string const &source)

std::string lower(std::string const &source, Encoding encoding)

Converts the string to lowercase, assuming the string is encoded in the default encoding.

Converts the string to lowercase, assuming the string is encoded in the indicated encoding.

void make_lower(void)

Adjusts the text stored within the encoder to all lowercase letters (preserving accent marks correctly).

void make_upper(void)

Adjusts the text stored within the encoder to all uppercase letters (preserving accent marks correctly).

std::string reencode_text(std::string const &text, Encoding from, Encoding to)

Given the indicated text string, which is assumed to be encoded via the encoding “from”, decodes it and then reencodes it into the encoding “to”, and returns the newly encoded string. This does not change or affect any properties on the TextEncoder itself.

void set_default_encoding(TextEncoder::Encoding encoding)

Specifies the default encoding to be used for all subsequently created TextEncoder objects. See set_encoding().

void set_encoding(TextEncoder::Encoding encoding)

Specifies how the string set via set_text() is to be interpreted. The default, E_iso8859, means a standard string with one-byte characters (i.e. ASCII). Other encodings are possible to take advantage of character sets with more than 256 characters.

This affects only future calls to set_text(); it does not change text that was set previously.

void set_text(PyObject *text)

void set_text(PyObject *text, Encoding encoding)

Changes the text that is stored in the encoder. The text should be encoded according to the method indicated by set_encoding(). Subsequent calls to get_text() will return this same string, while get_wtext() will return the decoded version of the string.

The two-parameter version of set_text() accepts an explicit encoding; the text is immediately decoded and stored as a wide-character string. Subsequent calls to get_text() will return the same text re-encoded using whichever encoding is specified by set_encoding().

void set_unicode_char(std::size_t index, char32_t character)

Sets the Unicode value of the nth character in the stored text. This may be a wide character (greater than 255), after the string has been decoded according to set_encoding().

void set_wtext(std::wstring const &wtext)

Direct support for wide-character strings. Now publishable with the new wstring support in interrogate.

Changes the text that is stored in the encoder. Subsequent calls to get_wtext() will return this same string, while get_text() will return the encoded version of the string.

bool unicode_isalpha(char32_t character)

Returns true if the indicated character is an alphabetic letter, false otherwise. This is akin to ctype’s isalpha(), extended to Unicode.

bool unicode_isdigit(char32_t character)

Returns true if the indicated character is a numeric digit, false otherwise. This is akin to ctype’s isdigit(), extended to Unicode.

bool unicode_islower(char32_t character)

Returns true if the indicated character is a lowercase letter, false otherwise. This is akin to ctype’s islower(), extended to Unicode.

bool unicode_ispunct(char32_t character)

Returns true if the indicated character is a punctuation mark, false otherwise. This is akin to ctype’s ispunct(), extended to Unicode.

bool unicode_isspace(char32_t character)

Returns true if the indicated character is a whitespace letter, false otherwise. This is akin to ctype’s isspace(), extended to Unicode.

bool unicode_isupper(char32_t character)

Returns true if the indicated character is an uppercase letter, false otherwise. This is akin to ctype’s isupper(), extended to Unicode.

int unicode_tolower(char32_t character)

Returns the uppercase equivalent of the given Unicode character. This is akin to ctype’s tolower(), extended to Unicode.

int unicode_toupper(char32_t character)

Returns the uppercase equivalent of the given Unicode character. This is akin to ctype’s toupper(), extended to Unicode.

std::string upper(std::string const &source)

std::string upper(std::string const &source, Encoding encoding)

Converts the string to uppercase, assuming the string is encoded in the default encoding.

Converts the string to uppercase, assuming the string is encoded in the indicated encoding.