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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 // Defines an iterator class that enumerates words supported by our spellchecker
6 // from multi-language text. This class is used for filtering out characters
7 // not supported by our spellchecker.
8 
9 #ifndef CHROME_RENDERER_SPELLCHECKER_SPELLCHECK_WORDITERATOR_H_
10 #define CHROME_RENDERER_SPELLCHECKER_SPELLCHECK_WORDITERATOR_H_
11 
12 #include <string>
13 
14 #include "base/basictypes.h"
15 #include "base/memory/scoped_ptr.h"
16 #include "base/strings/string16.h"
17 #include "third_party/icu/source/common/unicode/uscript.h"
18 
19 namespace base {
20 namespace i18n {
21 class BreakIterator;
22 } // namespace i18n
23 } // namespace base
24 
25 // A class which encapsulates language-specific operations used by
26 // SpellcheckWordIterator. When we set the spellchecker language, this class
27 // creates rule sets that filter out the characters not supported by the
28 // spellchecker. (Please read the comment in the SpellcheckWordIterator class
29 // about how to use this class.)
30 class SpellcheckCharAttribute {
31  public:
32   SpellcheckCharAttribute();
33   ~SpellcheckCharAttribute();
34 
35   // Sets the language of the spellchecker. When this function is called with an
36   // ISO language code, this function creates the custom rule-sets used by
37   // the ICU break iterator so it can extract only words used by the language.
38   // GetRuleSet() returns the rule-sets created in this function.
39   void SetDefaultLanguage(const std::string& language);
40 
41   // Returns a custom rule-set string used by the ICU break iterator. This class
42   // has two rule-sets, one splits a contraction and the other does not, so we
43   // can split a concaticated word (e.g. "seven-year-old") into words (e.g.
44   // "seven", "year", and "old") and check their spellings. The result stirng is
45   // encoded in UTF-16 since ICU needs UTF-16 strings.
46   base::string16 GetRuleSet(bool allow_contraction) const;
47 
48   // Outputs a character only if it is a word character. (Please read the
49   // comments in CreateRuleSets() why we need this function.)
50   bool OutputChar(UChar c, base::string16* output) const;
51 
52  private:
53   // Creates the rule-sets that return words possibly used by the given
54   // language. Unfortunately, these rule-sets are not perfect and have some
55   // false-positives. For example, they return combined accent marks even though
56   // we need English words only. We call OutputCharacter() to filter out such
57   // false-positive characters.
58   void CreateRuleSets(const std::string& language);
59 
60   // Outputs a character only if it is one used by the given language. These
61   // functions are called from OutputChar().
62   bool OutputArabic(UChar c, base::string16* output) const;
63   bool OutputHangul(UChar c, base::string16* output) const;
64   bool OutputHebrew(UChar c, base::string16* output) const;
65   bool OutputDefault(UChar c, base::string16* output) const;
66 
67   // The custom rule-set strings used by ICU break iterator. Since it is not so
68   // easy to create custom rule-sets from an ISO language code, this class
69   // saves these rule-set strings created when we set the language.
70   base::string16 ruleset_allow_contraction_;
71   base::string16 ruleset_disallow_contraction_;
72 
73   // The script code used by this language.
74   UScriptCode script_code_;
75 
76   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(SpellcheckCharAttribute);
77 };
78 
79 // A class which extracts words that can be checked for spelling from a
80 // multi-language string. The ICU word-break iterator does not discard some
81 // punctuation characters attached to a word. For example, when we set a word
82 // "_hello_" to a word-break iterator, it just returns "_hello_". Neither does
83 // it discard characters not used by the language. For example, it returns
84 // Russian words even though we need English words only. To extract only the
85 // words that our spellchecker can check their spellings, this class uses custom
86 // rule-sets created by the SpellcheckCharAttribute class. Also, this class
87 // normalizes extracted words so our spellchecker can check the spellings of
88 // words that include ligatures, combined characters, full-width characters,
89 // etc. This class uses UTF-16 strings as its input and output strings since
90 // UTF-16 is the native encoding of ICU and avoid unnecessary conversions
91 // when changing the encoding of this string for our spellchecker. (Chrome can
92 // use two or more spellcheckers and we cannot assume their encodings.)
93 // The following snippet is an example that extracts words with this class.
94 //
95 //   // Creates the language-specific attributes for US English.
96 //   SpellcheckCharAttribute attribute;
97 //   attribute.SetDefaultLanguage("en-US");
98 //
99 //   // Set up a SpellcheckWordIterator object which extracts English words,
100 //   // and retrieve them.
101 //   SpellcheckWordIterator iterator;
102 //   base::string16 text(base::UTF8ToUTF16("this is a test."));
103 //   iterator.Initialize(&attribute, true);
104 //   iterator.SetText(text.c_str(), text_.length());
105 //
106 //   base::string16 word;
107 //   int offset;
108 //   int length;
109 //   while (iterator.GetNextWord(&word, &offset, &length)) {
110 //     ...
111 //   }
112 //
113 class SpellcheckWordIterator {
114  public:
115   SpellcheckWordIterator();
116   ~SpellcheckWordIterator();
117 
118   // Initializes a word-iterator object with the language-specific attribute. If
119   // we need to split contractions and concatenated words, call this function
120   // with its 'allow_contraction' parameter false. (This function uses lots of
121   // temporal memory to compile a custom word-break rule into an automaton.)
122   bool Initialize(const SpellcheckCharAttribute* attribute,
123                   bool allow_contraction);
124 
125   // Returns whether this word iterator is initialized.
126   bool IsInitialized() const;
127 
128   // Set text to be iterated. (This text does not have to be NULL-terminated.)
129   // This function also resets internal state so we can reuse this iterator
130   // without calling Initialize().
131   bool SetText(const base::char16* text, size_t length);
132 
133   // Retrieves a word (or a contraction), stores its copy to 'word_string', and
134   // stores the position and the length for input word to 'word_start'. Since
135   // this function normalizes the output word, the length of 'word_string' may
136   // be different from the 'word_length'. Therefore, when we call functions that
137   // changes the input text, such as string16::replace(), we need to use
138   // 'word_start' and 'word_length' as listed in the following snippet.
139   //
140   //   while(iterator.GetNextWord(&word, &offset, &length))
141   //     text.replace(offset, length, word);
142   //
143   bool GetNextWord(base::string16* word_string,
144                    int* word_start,
145                    int* word_length);
146 
147   // Releases all the resources attached to this object.
148   void Reset();
149 
150  private:
151   // Normalizes a non-terminated string returned from an ICU word-break
152   // iterator. A word returned from an ICU break iterator may include characters
153   // not supported by our spellchecker, e.g. ligatures, combining/ characters,
154   // full-width letters, etc. This function replaces such characters with
155   // alternative characters supported by our spellchecker. This function also
156   // calls SpellcheckWordIterator::OutputChar() to filter out false-positive
157   // characters.
158   bool Normalize(int input_start,
159                  int input_length,
160                  base::string16* output_string) const;
161 
162   // The pointer to the input string from which we are extracting words.
163   const base::char16* text_;
164 
165   // The language-specific attributes used for filtering out non-word
166   // characters.
167   const SpellcheckCharAttribute* attribute_;
168 
169   // The break iterator.
170   scoped_ptr<base::i18n::BreakIterator> iterator_;
171 
172   DISALLOW_COPY_AND_ASSIGN(SpellcheckWordIterator);
173 };
174 
175 #endif  // CHROME_RENDERER_SPELLCHECKER_SPELLCHECK_WORDITERATOR_H_
176 
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