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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_NUM_DIRECTIONS = 3,
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 char* 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 // Returns whether the text direction for the default ICU locale is RTL.  This
58 // assumes that SetICUDefaultLocale has been called to set the default locale to
59 // the UI locale of Chrome.
60 // NOTE: Generally, you should call IsRTL() instead of this.
61 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool ICUIsRTL();
62 
63 // Returns the text direction for |locale_name|.
64 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetTextDirectionForLocale(
65     const char* locale_name);
66 
67 // Given the string in |text|, returns the directionality of the first or last
68 // character with strong directionality in the string. If no character in the
69 // text has strong directionality, LEFT_TO_RIGHT is returned. The Bidi
70 // character types L, LRE, LRO, R, AL, RLE, and RLO are considered as strong
71 // directionality characters. Please refer to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/
72 // for more information.
73 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetFirstStrongCharacterDirection(
74     const string16& text);
75 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetLastStrongCharacterDirection(
76     const string16& text);
77 
78 // Given the string in |text|, returns LEFT_TO_RIGHT or RIGHT_TO_LEFT if all the
79 // strong directionality characters in the string are of the same
80 // directionality. It returns UNKNOWN_DIRECTION if the string contains a mix of
81 // LTR and RTL strong directionality characters. Defaults to LEFT_TO_RIGHT if
82 // the string does not contain directionality characters. Please refer to
83 // http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ for more information.
84 BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetStringDirection(const string16& text);
85 
86 // Given the string in |text|, this function modifies the string in place with
87 // the appropriate Unicode formatting marks that mark the string direction
88 // (either left-to-right or right-to-left). The function checks both the current
89 // locale and the contents of the string in order to determine the direction of
90 // the returned string. The function returns true if the string in |text| was
91 // properly adjusted.
92 //
93 // Certain LTR strings are not rendered correctly when the context is RTL. For
94 // example, the string "Foo!" will appear as "!Foo" if it is rendered as is in
95 // an RTL context. Calling this function will make sure the returned localized
96 // string is always treated as a right-to-left string. This is done by
97 // inserting certain Unicode formatting marks into the returned string.
98 //
99 // ** Notes about the Windows version of this function:
100 // TODO(idana) bug 6806: this function adjusts the string in question only
101 // if the current locale is right-to-left. The function does not take care of
102 // the opposite case (an RTL string displayed in an LTR context) since
103 // adjusting the string involves inserting Unicode formatting characters that
104 // Windows does not handle well unless right-to-left language support is
105 // installed. Since the English version of Windows doesn't have right-to-left
106 // language support installed by default, inserting the direction Unicode mark
107 // results in Windows displaying squares.
108 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool AdjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16* text);
109 
110 // Undoes the actions of the above function (AdjustStringForLocaleDirection).
111 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool UnadjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16* text);
112 
113 // Returns true if the string contains at least one character with strong right
114 // to left directionality; that is, a character with either R or AL Unicode
115 // BiDi character type.
116 BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool StringContainsStrongRTLChars(const string16& text);
117 
118 // Wraps a string with an LRE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
119 // Left-To-Right string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure LTR
120 // strings are rendered properly in an RTL context.
121 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapStringWithLTRFormatting(string16* text);
122 
123 // Wraps a string with an RLE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a
124 // Right-To-Left string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure RTL
125 // strings are rendered properly in an LTR context.
126 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapStringWithRTLFormatting(string16* text);
127 
128 // Wraps file path to get it to display correctly in RTL UI. All filepaths
129 // should be passed through this function before display in UI for RTL locales.
130 BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapPathWithLTRFormatting(const FilePath& path,
131                                                 string16* rtl_safe_path);
132 
133 // Return the string in |text| wrapped with LRE (Left-To-Right Embedding) and
134 // PDF (Pop Directional Formatting) marks, if needed for UI display purposes.
135 BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16 GetDisplayStringInLTRDirectionality(
136     const string16& text) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
137 
138 // Strip the beginning (U+202A..U+202B, U+202D..U+202E) and/or ending (U+202C)
139 // explicit bidi control characters from |text|, if there are any. Otherwise,
140 // return the text itself. Explicit bidi control characters display and have
141 // semantic effect. They can be deleted so they might not always appear in a
142 // pair.
143 BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16 StripWrappingBidiControlCharacters(
144     const string16& text) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT;
145 
146 }  // namespace i18n
147 }  // namespace base
148 
149 #endif  // BASE_I18N_RTL_H_
150