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- * Jungshik Shin <jshin@mailaps.org>.
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- * Naoki Hotta <nhotta@netscape.com>
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-
- #include "nsISupports.idl"
-
- [scriptable, uuid(249f52a3-2599-4b00-ba40-0481364831a2)]
- interface nsIUTF8ConverterService : nsISupports
- {
- /**
- * Ensure that |aString| is encoded in UTF-8. If not,
- * convert to UTF-8 assuming it's encoded in |aCharset|
- * and return the converted string in UTF-8.
- *
- * @param aString a string to ensure its UTF8ness
- * @param aCharset the charset to convert from if |aString| is not in UTF-8
- * @param aSkipCheck determines whether or not to skip 'ASCIIness' and
- * 'UTF8ness' check. Set this to PR_TRUE only if you suspect that
- * aString can be mistaken for ASCII / UTF-8 but is actually NOT
- * in ASCII / UTF-8 so that aString has to go through the conversion.
- * skipping ASCIIness/UTF8ness check.
- * The most common case is the input is in 7bit non-ASCII charsets
- * like ISO-2022-JP, HZ or UTF-7 (in its original form or
- * a modified form used in IMAP folder names).
- * @return the converted string in UTF-8.
- * @throws NS_ERROR_UCONV_NOCONV when there is no decoder for aCharset
- * or error code of nsIUnicodeDecoder in case of conversion failure
- */
-
- AUTF8String convertStringToUTF8(in ACString aString,
- in string aCharset,
- in boolean aSkipCheck);
-
- /* XXX : To-be-added. convertStringFromUTF8 */
-
- /**
- * Ensure that |aSpec| (after URL-unescaping it) is encoded in UTF-8.
- * If not, convert it to UTF-8, assuming it's encoded in |aCharset|,
- * and return the result.
- *
- * <p>Make sure that all characters outside US-ASCII in your input spec
- * are url-escaped if your spec is not in UTF-8 (before url-escaping)
- * because the presence of non-ASCII characters is <strong>blindly</strong>
- * regarded as an indication that your input spec is in unescaped UTF-8
- * and it will be returned without further processing. No valid spec
- * going around in Mozilla code would break this assumption.
- *
- * <p>XXX The above may change in the future depending on the usage pattern.
- *
- * @param aSpec an url-escaped URI spec to ensure its UTF8ness
- * @param aCharset the charset to convert from if |aSpec| is not in UTF-8
- * @return the converted spec in UTF-8.
- * @throws NS_ERROR_UCONV_NOCONV when there is no decoder for aCharset
- * or error code of nsIUnicodeDecoder in case of conversion failure
- */
-
- AUTF8String convertURISpecToUTF8(in ACString aSpec,
- in string aCharset);
- };
-
-