namespace lyx {
-/// String type for storing the main text in UCS4 encoding
-typedef std::basic_string<char_type> docstring;
-
-} // namespace lyx
-
-
-#if ! defined(USE_WCHAR_T) && defined(__GNUC__) && defined(__GNUC_MINOR__) && __GNUC__ == 3 && __GNUC_MINOR__ < 4
-// Missing char_traits methods in gcc 3.3 and older. Taken from gcc 4.2svn.
-namespace std {
-
-template<typename T> void
-char_traits<T>::assign(char_type & c1, char_type const & c2)
-{
- c1 = c2;
-}
-
-
-template<typename T> bool
-char_traits<T>::eq(char_type const & c1, char_type const & c2)
-{
- return c1 == c2;
-}
+/// Creates a docstring from a C string of ASCII characters
+docstring const from_ascii(char const *);
+/// Creates a docstring from a std::string of ASCII characters
+docstring const from_ascii(std::string const &);
-template<typename T> bool
-char_traits<T>::lt(char_type const & c1, char_type const & c2)
-{
- return c1 < c2;
-}
+/// Creates a std::string of ASCII characters from a docstring
+std::string const to_ascii(docstring const &);
+/// Creates a docstring from a UTF8 string. This should go eventually.
+docstring const from_utf8(std::string const &);
-template<typename T> int
-char_traits<T>::compare(char_type const * s1, char_type const * s2, std::size_t n)
-{
- for (std::size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i)
- if (lt(s1[i], s2[i]))
- return -1;
- else if (lt(s2[i], s1[i]))
- return 1;
- return 0;
-}
+/// Creates a UTF8 string from a docstring. This should go eventually.
+std::string const to_utf8(docstring const &);
+/// convert \p s from the encoding of the locale to ucs4.
+docstring const from_local8bit(std::string const & s);
-template<typename T> std::size_t
-char_traits<T>::length(char_type const * p)
-{
- std::size_t i = 0;
- while (!eq(p[i], char_type()))
- ++i;
- return i;
-}
-
-
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::char_type const *
-char_traits<T>::find(char_type const * s, size_t n, char_type const & a)
-{
- for (std::size_t i = 0; i < n; ++i)
- if (eq(s[i], a))
- return s + i;
- return 0;
-}
+/**
+ * Convert \p s from ucs4 to the encoding of the locale.
+ * This may fail and throw an exception, the caller is expected to act
+ * appropriately.
+ */
+std::string const to_local8bit(docstring const & s);
+/// convert \p s from the encoding of the file system to ucs4.
+docstring const from_filesystem8bit(std::string const & s);
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::char_type *
-char_traits<T>::move(char_type * s1, char_type const * s2, std::size_t n)
-{
- return static_cast<T *>(std::memmove(s1, s2, n * sizeof(char_type)));
-}
+/// convert \p s from ucs4 to the encoding of the file system.
+std::string const to_filesystem8bit(docstring const & s);
+/// convert \p s from ucs4 to the \p encoding.
+std::string const to_iconv_encoding(docstring const & s,
+ std::string const & encoding);
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::char_type *
-char_traits<T>::copy(char_type * s1, char_type const * s2, std::size_t n)
-{
- std::copy(s2, s2 + n, s1);
- return s1;
-}
+/// convert \p s from \p encoding to ucs4.
+docstring const from_iconv_encoding(std::string const & s,
+ std::string const & encoding);
+/// normalize \p s to precomposed form c
+docstring const normalize_c(docstring const & s);
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::char_type *
-char_traits<T>::assign(char_type * s, std::size_t n, char_type a)
-{
- std::fill_n(s, n, a);
- return s;
-}
+/// Compare a docstring with a C string of ASCII characters
+bool operator==(docstring const &, char const *);
+/// Compare a C string of ASCII characters with a docstring
+inline bool operator==(char const * l, docstring const & r) { return r == l; }
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::char_type
-char_traits<T>::to_char_type(int_type const & c)
-{
- return static_cast<char_type>(c);
-}
+/// Compare a docstring with a C string of ASCII characters
+inline bool operator!=(docstring const & l, char const * r) { return !(l == r); }
+/// Compare a C string of ASCII characters with a docstring
+inline bool operator!=(char const * l, docstring const & r) { return !(r == l); }
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::int_type
-char_traits<T>::to_int_type(char_type const & c)
-{
- return static_cast<int_type>(c);
-}
+/// Concatenate a docstring and a C string of ASCII characters
+docstring operator+(docstring const &, char const *);
+/// Concatenate a C string of ASCII characters and a docstring
+docstring operator+(char const *, docstring const &);
-template<typename T> bool
-char_traits<T>::eq_int_type(int_type const & c1, int_type const & c2)
-{
- return c1 == c2;
-}
+/// Concatenate a docstring and a single ASCII character
+docstring operator+(docstring const & l, char r);
+/// Concatenate a single ASCII character and a docstring
+docstring operator+(char l, docstring const & r);
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::int_type
-char_traits<T>::eof()
-{
- return static_cast<int_type>(EOF);
-}
+/// Append a C string of ASCII characters to a docstring
+docstring & operator+=(docstring &, char const *);
+/// Append a single ASCII character to a docstring
+docstring & operator+=(docstring & l, char r);
-template<typename T> typename char_traits<T>::int_type
-char_traits<T>::not_eof(int_type const & c)
-{
- return !eq_int_type(c, eof()) ? c : to_int_type(char_type());
-}
+} // namespace lyx
-}
-#endif
#endif