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1 // Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved.
2 // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be
3 // found in the LICENSE file.
4 
5 #ifndef BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
6 #define BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
7 
8 #include <string>
9 
10 #include "base/compiler_specific.h"
11 #include "base/i18n/base_i18n_export.h"
12 #include "base/strings/string16.h"
13 #include "build/build_config.h"
14 
15 namespace base {
16 
17 class FilePath;
18 
19 namespace i18n {
20 
21 const char16 kRightToLeftMark = 0x200F;
22 const char16 kLeftToRightMark = 0x200E;
23 const char16 kLeftToRightEmbeddingMark = 0x202A;
24 const char16 kRightToLeftEmbeddingMark = 0x202B;
25 const char16 kPopDirectionalFormatting = 0x202C;
26 const char16 kLeftToRightOverride = 0x202D;
27 const char16 kRightToLeftOverride = 0x202E;
28 
29 // Locale.java mirrored this enum TextDirection. Please keep in sync.
30 enum TextDirection {
31   UNKNOWN_DIRECTION = 0,
32   RIGHT_TO_LEFT = 1,
33   LEFT_TO_RIGHT = 2,
34   TEXT_DIRECTION_MAX = LEFT_TO_RIGHT,
35 };
36 
37 // Get the locale that the currently running process has been configured to use.
38 // The return value is of the form language[-country] (e.g., en-US) where the
39 // language is the 2 or 3 letter code from ISO-639.
40 BASE_I18N_EXPORT std::string GetConfiguredLocale();
41 
42 // Canonicalize a string (eg. a POSIX locale string) to a Chrome locale name.
43 BASE_I18N_EXPORT std::string GetCanonicalLocale(const std::string& locale);
44 
45 // Sets the default locale of ICU.
46 // Once the application locale of Chrome in GetApplicationLocale is determined,
47 // the default locale of ICU need to be changed to match the application locale
48 // so that ICU functions work correctly in a locale-dependent manner.
49 // This is handy in that we don't have to call GetApplicationLocale()
50 // everytime we call locale-dependent ICU APIs as long as we make sure
51 // that this is called before any locale-dependent API is called.
52 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void SetICUDefaultLocale(const std::string& locale_string);
53 
54 // Returns true if the application text direction is right-to-left.
55 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool IsRTL();
56 
57 // A test utility function to set the application default text direction.
58 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void SetRTLForTesting(bool rtl);
59 
60 // Returns whether the text direction for the default ICU locale is RTL.  This
61 // assumes that SetICUDefaultLocale has been called to set the default locale to
62 // the UI locale of Chrome.
63 // NOTE: Generally, you should call IsRTL() instead of this.
64 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool ICUIsRTL();
65 
66 // Gets the explicitly forced text direction for debugging. If no forcing is
67 // applied, returns UNKNOWN_DIRECTION.
68 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetForcedTextDirection();
69 
70 // Returns the text direction for |locale_name|.
71 // As a startup optimization, this method checks the locale against a list of
72 // Chrome-supported RTL locales.
73 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection
74 GetTextDirectionForLocaleInStartUp(const char* locale_name);
75 
76 // Returns the text direction for |locale_name|.
77 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetTextDirectionForLocale(
78     const char* locale_name);
79 
80 // Given the string in |text|, returns the directionality of the first or last
81 // character with strong directionality in the string. If no character in the
82 // text has strong directionality, LEFT_TO_RIGHT is returned. The Bidi
83 // character types L, LRE, LRO, R, AL, RLE, and RLO are considered as strong
84 // directionality characters. Please refer to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
85 // for more information.
86 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetFirstStrongCharacterDirection(
87     const string16& text);
88 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetLastStrongCharacterDirection(
89     const string16& text);
90 
91 // Given the string in |text|, returns LEFT_TO_RIGHT or RIGHT_TO_LEFT if all the
92 // strong directionality characters in the string are of the same
93 // directionality. It returns UNKNOWN_DIRECTION if the string contains a mix of
94 // LTR and RTL strong directionality characters. Defaults to LEFT_TO_RIGHT if
95 // the string does not contain directionality characters. Please refer to
96 // http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ for more information.
97 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetStringDirection(const string16& text);
98 
99 // Given the string in |text|, this function modifies the string in place with
100 // the appropriate Unicode formatting marks that mark the string direction
101 // (either left-to-right or right-to-left). The function checks both the current
102 // locale and the contents of the string in order to determine the direction of
103 // the returned string. The function returns true if the string in |text| was
104 // properly adjusted.
105 //
106 // Certain LTR strings are not rendered correctly when the context is RTL. For
107 // example, the string "Foo!" will appear as "!Foo" if it is rendered as is in
108 // an RTL context. Calling this function will make sure the returned localized
109 // string is always treated as a right-to-left string. This is done by
110 // inserting certain Unicode formatting marks into the returned string.
111 //
112 // ** Notes about the Windows version of this function:
113 // TODO(idana) bug 6806: this function adjusts the string in question only
114 // if the current locale is right-to-left. The function does not take care of
115 // the opposite case (an RTL string displayed in an LTR context) since
116 // adjusting the string involves inserting Unicode formatting characters that
117 // Windows does not handle well unless right-to-left language support is
118 // installed. Since the English version of Windows doesn't have right-to-left
119 // language support installed by default, inserting the direction Unicode mark
120 // results in Windows displaying squares.
121 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool AdjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16* text);
122 
123 // Undoes the actions of the above function (AdjustStringForLocaleDirection).
124 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool UnadjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16* text);
125 
126 // Ensures |text| contains no unterminated directional formatting characters, by
127 // appending the appropriate pop-directional-formatting characters to the end of
128 // |text|.
129 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void EnsureTerminatedDirectionalFormatting(string16* text);
130 
131 // Sanitizes the |text| by terminating any directional override/embedding
132 // characters and then adjusting the string for locale direction.
133 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void SanitizeUserSuppliedString(string16* text);
134 
135 // Returns true if the string contains at least one character with strong right
136 // to left directionality; that is, a character with either R or AL Unicode
137 // BiDi character type.
138 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool StringContainsStrongRTLChars(const string16& text);
139 
140 // Wraps a string with an LRE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
141 // Left-To-Right string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure LTR
142 // strings are rendered properly in an RTL context.
143 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapStringWithLTRFormatting(string16* text);
144 
145 // Wraps a string with an RLE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
146 // Right-To-Left string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure RTL
147 // strings are rendered properly in an LTR context.
148 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapStringWithRTLFormatting(string16* text);
149 
150 // Wraps file path to get it to display correctly in RTL UI. All filepaths
151 // should be passed through this function before display in UI for RTL locales.
152 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapPathWithLTRFormatting(const FilePath& path,
153                                                 string16* rtl_safe_path);
154 
155 // Return the string in |text| wrapped with LRE (Left-To-Right Embedding) and
156 // PDF (Pop Directional Formatting) marks, if needed for UI display purposes.
157 BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16 GetDisplayStringInLTRDirectionality(
158     const string16& text) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
159 
160 // Strip the beginning (U+202A..U+202B, U+202D..U+202E) and/or ending (U+202C)
161 // explicit bidi control characters from |text|, if there are any. Otherwise,
162 // return the text itself. Explicit bidi control characters display and have
163 // semantic effect. They can be deleted so they might not always appear in a
164 // pair.
165 BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16 StripWrappingBidiControlCharacters(
166     const string16& text) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
167 
168 }  // namespace i18n
169 }  // namespace base
170 
171 #endif  // BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
172