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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 4; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 4 -*- */
+/*
+ * This file is part of the LibreOffice project.
+ *
+ * This Source Code Form is subject to the terms of the Mozilla Public
+ * License, v. 2.0. If a copy of the MPL was not distributed with this
+ * file, You can obtain one at http://mozilla.org/MPL/2.0/.
+ *
+ * This file incorporates work covered by the following license notice:
+ *
+ *   Licensed to the Apache Software Foundation (ASF) under one or more
+ *   contributor license agreements. See the NOTICE file distributed
+ *   with this work for additional information regarding copyright
+ *   ownership. The ASF licenses this file to you under the Apache
+ *   License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file
+ *   except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of
+ *   the License at http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0 .
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_SVL_SOURCE_INC_STRINGIO_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_SVL_SOURCE_INC_STRINGIO_HXX
+
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+class SvStream;
+
+/** Read in a Unicode string from a streamed byte string representation.
+
+    @param rStream  Some (input) stream.  Its Stream/TargetCharSets must
+    be set to correct values!
+
+    @return  On success, returns the reconstructed Unicode string.
+ */
+OUString readByteString(SvStream& rStream);
+
+/** Write a byte string representation of a Unicode string into a stream.
+
+    @param rStream  Some (output) stream.  Its Stream/TargetCharSets must
+    be set to correct values!
+
+    @param rString  Some Unicode string.
+ */
+void writeByteString(SvStream& rStream, std::u16string_view rString);
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_SVL_SOURCE_INC_STRINGIO_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */