// Copyright (c) 2011 The Chromium Authors. All rights reserved. // Use of this source code is governed by a BSD-style license that can be // found in the LICENSE file. #ifndef BASE_I18N_RTL_H_ #define BASE_I18N_RTL_H_ #pragma once #include #include "base/compiler_specific.h" #include "base/i18n/base_i18n_export.h" #include "base/string16.h" #include "build/build_config.h" class FilePath; namespace base { namespace i18n { const char16 kRightToLeftMark = 0x200F; const char16 kLeftToRightMark = 0x200E; const char16 kLeftToRightEmbeddingMark = 0x202A; const char16 kRightToLeftEmbeddingMark = 0x202B; const char16 kPopDirectionalFormatting = 0x202C; const char16 kLeftToRightOverride = 0x202D; const char16 kRightToLeftOverride = 0x202E; enum TextDirection { UNKNOWN_DIRECTION, RIGHT_TO_LEFT, LEFT_TO_RIGHT, }; // Get the locale that the currently running process has been configured to use. // The return value is of the form language[-country] (e.g., en-US) where the // language is the 2 or 3 letter code from ISO-639. BASE_I18N_EXPORT std::string GetConfiguredLocale(); // Canonicalize a string (eg. a POSIX locale string) to a Chrome locale name. BASE_I18N_EXPORT std::string GetCanonicalLocale(const char* locale); // Sets the default locale of ICU. // Once the application locale of Chrome in GetApplicationLocale is determined, // the default locale of ICU need to be changed to match the application locale // so that ICU functions work correctly in a locale-dependent manner. // This is handy in that we don't have to call GetApplicationLocale() // everytime we call locale-dependent ICU APIs as long as we make sure // that this is called before any locale-dependent API is called. BASE_I18N_EXPORT void SetICUDefaultLocale(const std::string& locale_string); // Returns true if the application text direction is right-to-left. BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool IsRTL(); // Returns whether the text direction for the default ICU locale is RTL. This // assumes that SetICUDefaultLocale has been called to set the default locale to // the UI locale of Chrome. // NOTE: Generally, you should call IsRTL() instead of this. BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool ICUIsRTL(); // Returns the text direction for |locale_name|. BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetTextDirectionForLocale( const char* locale_name); // Given the string in |text|, returns the directionality of the first // character with strong directionality in the string. If no character in the // text has strong directionality, LEFT_TO_RIGHT is returned. The Bidi // character types L, LRE, LRO, R, AL, RLE, and RLO are considered as strong // directionality characters. Please refer to http://unicode.org/reports/tr9/ // for more information. BASE_I18N_EXPORT TextDirection GetFirstStrongCharacterDirection( const string16& text); // Given the string in |text|, this function modifies the string in place with // the appropriate Unicode formatting marks that mark the string direction // (either left-to-right or right-to-left). The function checks both the current // locale and the contents of the string in order to determine the direction of // the returned string. The function returns true if the string in |text| was // properly adjusted. // // Certain LTR strings are not rendered correctly when the context is RTL. For // example, the string "Foo!" will appear as "!Foo" if it is rendered as is in // an RTL context. Calling this function will make sure the returned localized // string is always treated as a right-to-left string. This is done by // inserting certain Unicode formatting marks into the returned string. // // ** Notes about the Windows version of this function: // TODO(idana) bug 6806: this function adjusts the string in question only // if the current locale is right-to-left. The function does not take care of // the opposite case (an RTL string displayed in an LTR context) since // adjusting the string involves inserting Unicode formatting characters that // Windows does not handle well unless right-to-left language support is // installed. Since the English version of Windows doesn't have right-to-left // language support installed by default, inserting the direction Unicode mark // results in Windows displaying squares. BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool AdjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16* text); // Undoes the actions of the above function (AdjustStringForLocaleDirection). BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool UnadjustStringForLocaleDirection(string16* text); // Returns true if the string contains at least one character with strong right // to left directionality; that is, a character with either R or AL Unicode // BiDi character type. BASE_I18N_EXPORT bool StringContainsStrongRTLChars(const string16& text); // Wraps a string with an LRE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a // Left-To-Right string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure LTR // strings are rendered properly in an RTL context. BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapStringWithLTRFormatting(string16* text); // Wraps a string with an RLE-PDF pair which essentialy marks the string as a // Right-To-Left string. Doing this is useful in order to make sure RTL // strings are rendered properly in an LTR context. BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapStringWithRTLFormatting(string16* text); // Wraps file path to get it to display correctly in RTL UI. All filepaths // should be passed through this function before display in UI for RTL locales. BASE_I18N_EXPORT void WrapPathWithLTRFormatting(const FilePath& path, string16* rtl_safe_path); // Given the string in |text|, this function returns the adjusted string having // LTR directionality for display purpose. Which means that in RTL locale the // string is wrapped with LRE (Left-To-Right Embedding) and PDF (Pop // Directional Formatting) marks and returned. In LTR locale, the string itself // is returned. BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16 GetDisplayStringInLTRDirectionality( const string16& text) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT; // Strip the beginning (U+202A..U+202B, U+202D..U+202E) and/or ending (U+202C) // explicit bidi control characters from |text|, if there are any. Otherwise, // return the text itself. Explicit bidi control characters display and have // semantic effect. They can be deleted so they might not always appear in a // pair. BASE_I18N_EXPORT string16 StripWrappingBidiControlCharacters( const string16& text) WARN_UNUSED_RESULT; } // namespace i18n } // namespace base #endif // BASE_I18N_RTL_H_