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icu46/source/common/unicode/ucat.h

+/*
+**********************************************************************
+* Copyright (c) 2003-2004, International Business Machines
+* Corporation and others.  All Rights Reserved.
+**********************************************************************
+* Author: Alan Liu
+* Created: March 19 2003
+* Since: ICU 2.6
+**********************************************************************
+*/
+#ifndef UCAT_H
+#define UCAT_H
+
+#include "unicode/utypes.h"
+#include "unicode/ures.h"
+
+/**
+ * \file
+ * \brief C API: Message Catalog Wrappers
+ *
+ * This C API provides look-alike functions that deliberately resemble
+ * the POSIX catopen, catclose, and catgets functions.  The underlying
+ * implementation is in terms of ICU resource bundles, rather than
+ * POSIX message catalogs.
+ *
+ * The ICU resource bundles obey standard ICU inheritance policies.
+ * To facilitate this, sets and messages are flattened into one tier.
+ * This is done by creating resource bundle keys of the form
+ * <set_num>%<msg_num> where set_num is the set number and msg_num is
+ * the message number, formatted as decimal strings.
+ *
+ * Example:  Consider a message catalog containing two sets:
+ *
+ * Set 1: Message 4  = "Good morning."
+ *        Message 5  = "Good afternoon."
+ *        Message 7  = "Good evening."
+ *        Message 8  = "Good night."
+ * Set 4: Message 14 = "Please "
+ *        Message 19 = "Thank you."
+ *        Message 20 = "Sincerely,"
+ *
+ * The ICU resource bundle source file would, assuming it is named
+ * "greet.txt", would look like this:
+ *
+ * greet
+ * {
+ *     1%4  { "Good morning." }
+ *     1%5  { "Good afternoon." }
+ *     1%7  { "Good evening." }
+ *     1%8  { "Good night." }
+ * 
+ *     4%14 { "Please " }
+ *     4%19 { "Thank you." }
+ *     4%20 { "Sincerely," }
+ * }
+ *
+ * The catgets function is commonly used in combination with functions
+ * like printf and strftime.  ICU components like message format can
+ * be used instead, although they use a different format syntax.
+ * There is an ICU package, icuio, that provides some of
+ * the POSIX-style formatting API.
+ */
+
+U_CDECL_BEGIN
+
+/**
+ * An ICU message catalog descriptor, analogous to nl_catd.
+ * 
+ * @stable ICU 2.6
+ */
+typedef UResourceBundle* u_nl_catd;
+
+/**
+ * Open and return an ICU message catalog descriptor. The descriptor
+ * may be passed to u_catgets() to retrieve localized strings.
+ *
+ * @param name string containing the full path pointing to the
+ * directory where the resources reside followed by the package name
+ * e.g. "/usr/resource/my_app/resources/guimessages" on a Unix system.
+ * If NULL, ICU default data files will be used.
+ *
+ * Unlike POSIX, environment variables are not interpolated within the
+ * name.
+ *
+ * @param locale the locale for which we want to open the resource. If
+ * NULL, the default ICU locale will be used (see uloc_getDefault). If
+ * strlen(locale) == 0, the root locale will be used.
+ *
+ * @param ec input/output error code. Upon output,
+ * U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING indicates that a fallback locale was
+ * used. For example, 'de_CH' was requested, but nothing was found
+ * there, so 'de' was used. U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING indicates that the
+ * default locale data or root locale data was used; neither the
+ * requested locale nor any of its fallback locales were found.
+ *
+ * @return a message catalog descriptor that may be passed to
+ * u_catgets(). If the ec parameter indicates success, then the caller
+ * is responsible for calling u_catclose() to close the message
+ * catalog. If the ec parameter indicates failure, then NULL will be
+ * returned.
+ * 
+ * @stable ICU 2.6
+ */
+U_STABLE u_nl_catd U_EXPORT2
+u_catopen(const char* name, const char* locale, UErrorCode* ec);
+
+/**
+ * Close an ICU message catalog, given its descriptor.
+ *
+ * @param catd a message catalog descriptor to be closed. May be NULL,
+ * in which case no action is taken.
+ * 
+ * @stable ICU 2.6
+ */
+U_STABLE void U_EXPORT2
+u_catclose(u_nl_catd catd);
+
+/**
+ * Retrieve a localized string from an ICU message catalog.
+ *
+ * @param catd a message catalog descriptor returned by u_catopen.
+ *
+ * @param set_num the message catalog set number. Sets need not be
+ * numbered consecutively.
+ *
+ * @param msg_num the message catalog message number within the
+ * set. Messages need not be numbered consecutively.
+ *
+ * @param s the default string. This is returned if the string
+ * specified by the set_num and msg_num is not found. It must be
+ * zero-terminated.
+ *
+ * @param len fill-in parameter to receive the length of the result.
+ * May be NULL, in which case it is ignored.
+ *
+ * @param ec input/output error code. May be U_USING_FALLBACK_WARNING
+ * or U_USING_DEFAULT_WARNING. U_MISSING_RESOURCE_ERROR indicates that
+ * the set_num/msg_num tuple does not specify a valid message string
+ * in this catalog.
+ *
+ * @return a pointer to a zero-terminated UChar array which lives in
+ * an internal buffer area, typically a memory mapped/DLL file. The
+ * caller must NOT delete this pointer. If the call is unsuccessful
+ * for any reason, then s is returned.  This includes the situation in
+ * which ec indicates a failing error code upon entry to this
+ * function.
+ * 
+ * @stable ICU 2.6
+ */
+U_STABLE const UChar* U_EXPORT2
+u_catgets(u_nl_catd catd, int32_t set_num, int32_t msg_num,
+          const UChar* s,
+          int32_t* len, UErrorCode* ec);
+
+U_CDECL_END
+
+#endif /*UCAT_H*/
+/*eof*/