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authorDaniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>2024-04-21 11:44:51 +0000
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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
+/* 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/. */
+// IWYU pragma: private, include "nsString.h"
+
+#ifndef nsReadableUtils_h___
+#define nsReadableUtils_h___
+
+/**
+ * I guess all the routines in this file are all mis-named.
+ * According to our conventions, they should be |NS_xxx|.
+ */
+
+#include "mozilla/Assertions.h"
+#include "nsAString.h"
+#include "mozilla/TextUtils.h"
+
+#include "nsTArrayForwardDeclare.h"
+
+// From the nsstring crate
+extern "C" {
+bool nsstring_fallible_append_utf8_impl(nsAString* aThis, const char* aOther,
+ size_t aOtherLen, size_t aOldLen);
+
+bool nsstring_fallible_append_latin1_impl(nsAString* aThis, const char* aOther,
+ size_t aOtherLen, size_t aOldLen,
+ bool aAllowShrinking);
+
+bool nscstring_fallible_append_utf16_to_utf8_impl(nsACString* aThis,
+ const char16_t*,
+ size_t aOtherLen,
+ size_t aOldLen);
+
+bool nscstring_fallible_append_utf16_to_latin1_lossy_impl(nsACString* aThis,
+ const char16_t*,
+ size_t aOtherLen,
+ size_t aOldLen,
+ bool aAllowShrinking);
+
+bool nscstring_fallible_append_utf8_to_latin1_lossy_check(
+ nsACString* aThis, const nsACString* aOther, size_t aOldLen);
+
+bool nscstring_fallible_append_latin1_to_utf8_check(nsACString* aThis,
+ const nsACString* aOther,
+ size_t aOldLen);
+}
+
+inline size_t Distance(const nsReadingIterator<char16_t>& aStart,
+ const nsReadingIterator<char16_t>& aEnd) {
+ MOZ_ASSERT(aStart.get() <= aEnd.get());
+ return static_cast<size_t>(aEnd.get() - aStart.get());
+}
+
+inline size_t Distance(const nsReadingIterator<char>& aStart,
+ const nsReadingIterator<char>& aEnd) {
+ MOZ_ASSERT(aStart.get() <= aEnd.get());
+ return static_cast<size_t>(aEnd.get() - aStart.get());
+}
+
+// NOTE: Operations that don't need an operand to be an XPCOM string
+// are in mozilla/TextUtils.h and mozilla/Utf8.h.
+
+// UTF-8 to UTF-16
+// Invalid UTF-8 byte sequences are replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool CopyUTF8toUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nsstring_fallible_append_utf8_impl(&aDest, aSource.Elements(),
+ aSource.Length(), 0);
+}
+
+inline void CopyUTF8toUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!CopyUTF8toUTF16(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool AppendUTF8toUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nsstring_fallible_append_utf8_impl(&aDest, aSource.Elements(),
+ aSource.Length(), aDest.Length());
+}
+
+inline void AppendUTF8toUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!AppendUTF8toUTF16(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aDest.Length() + aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+// Latin1 to UTF-16
+// Interpret each incoming unsigned byte value as a Unicode scalar value (not
+// windows-1252!). The function names say "ASCII" instead of "Latin1" for
+// legacy reasons.
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool CopyASCIItoUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nsstring_fallible_append_latin1_impl(&aDest, aSource.Elements(),
+ aSource.Length(), 0, true);
+}
+
+inline void CopyASCIItoUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!CopyASCIItoUTF16(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool AppendASCIItoUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nsstring_fallible_append_latin1_impl(
+ &aDest, aSource.Elements(), aSource.Length(), aDest.Length(), false);
+}
+
+inline void AppendASCIItoUTF16(mozilla::Span<const char> aSource,
+ nsAString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!AppendASCIItoUTF16(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aDest.Length() + aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+// UTF-16 to UTF-8
+// Unpaired surrogates are replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool CopyUTF16toUTF8(mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_utf16_to_utf8_impl(
+ &aDest, aSource.Elements(), aSource.Length(), 0);
+}
+
+inline void CopyUTF16toUTF8(mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!CopyUTF16toUTF8(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool AppendUTF16toUTF8(
+ mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource, nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_utf16_to_utf8_impl(
+ &aDest, aSource.Elements(), aSource.Length(), aDest.Length());
+}
+
+inline void AppendUTF16toUTF8(mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!AppendUTF16toUTF8(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aDest.Length() + aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+// UTF-16 to Latin1
+// If all code points in the input are below U+0100, represents each scalar
+// value as an unsigned byte. (This is not windows-1252!) If there are code
+// points above U+00FF, memory-safely produces garbage and will likely start
+// asserting in future debug builds. The nature of the garbage may differ
+// based on CPU architecture and must not be relied upon. The names say
+// "ASCII" instead of "Latin1" for legacy reasons.
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool LossyCopyUTF16toASCII(
+ mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource, nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_utf16_to_latin1_lossy_impl(
+ &aDest, aSource.Elements(), aSource.Length(), 0, true);
+}
+
+inline void LossyCopyUTF16toASCII(mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!LossyCopyUTF16toASCII(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool LossyAppendUTF16toASCII(
+ mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource, nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_utf16_to_latin1_lossy_impl(
+ &aDest, aSource.Elements(), aSource.Length(), aDest.Length(), false);
+}
+
+inline void LossyAppendUTF16toASCII(mozilla::Span<const char16_t> aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(
+ !LossyAppendUTF16toASCII(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aDest.Length() + aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+// Latin1 to UTF-8
+// Interpret each incoming unsigned byte value as a Unicode scalar value (not
+// windows-1252!).
+// If the input is ASCII, the heap-allocated nsStringBuffer is shared if
+// possible.
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool CopyLatin1toUTF8(const nsACString& aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_latin1_to_utf8_check(&aDest, &aSource, 0);
+}
+
+inline void CopyLatin1toUTF8(const nsACString& aSource, nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!CopyLatin1toUTF8(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool AppendLatin1toUTF8(const nsACString& aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_latin1_to_utf8_check(&aDest, &aSource,
+ aDest.Length());
+}
+
+inline void AppendLatin1toUTF8(const nsACString& aSource, nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!AppendLatin1toUTF8(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aDest.Length() + aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+// UTF-8 to Latin1
+// If all code points in the input are below U+0100, represents each scalar
+// value as an unsigned byte. (This is not windows-1252!) If there are code
+// points above U+00FF, memory-safely produces garbage in release builds and
+// asserts in debug builds. The nature of the garbage may differ
+// based on CPU architecture and must not be relied upon.
+// If the input is ASCII, the heap-allocated nsStringBuffer is shared if
+// possible.
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool LossyCopyUTF8toLatin1(const nsACString& aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_utf8_to_latin1_lossy_check(&aDest, &aSource,
+ 0);
+}
+
+inline void LossyCopyUTF8toLatin1(const nsACString& aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(!LossyCopyUTF8toLatin1(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool LossyAppendUTF8toLatin1(const nsACString& aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t&) {
+ return nscstring_fallible_append_utf8_to_latin1_lossy_check(&aDest, &aSource,
+ aDest.Length());
+}
+
+inline void LossyAppendUTF8toLatin1(const nsACString& aSource,
+ nsACString& aDest) {
+ if (MOZ_UNLIKELY(
+ !LossyAppendUTF8toLatin1(aSource, aDest, mozilla::fallible))) {
+ aDest.AllocFailed(aDest.Length() + aSource.Length());
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new |char| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of |aSource|.
+ *
+ * Infallibly allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must
+ * free with |free|.
+ * Performs a conversion with LossyConvertUTF16toLatin1() writing into the
+ * newly-allocated buffer.
+ *
+ * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource|
+ * contains embedded nulls.
+ *
+ * @param aSource a 16-bit wide string
+ * @return a new |char| buffer you must free with |free|.
+ */
+char* ToNewCString(const nsAString& aSource);
+
+/* A fallible version of ToNewCString. Returns nullptr on failure. */
+char* ToNewCString(const nsAString& aSource,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t& aFallible);
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new |char| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of |aSource|.
+ *
+ * Infallibly allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must
+ * free with |free|.
+ *
+ * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource|
+ * contains embedded nulls.
+ *
+ * @param aSource an 8-bit wide string
+ * @return a new |char| buffer you must free with |free|.
+ */
+char* ToNewCString(const nsACString& aSource);
+
+/* A fallible version of ToNewCString. Returns nullptr on failure. */
+char* ToNewCString(const nsACString& aSource,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t& aFallible);
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new |char| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy of |aSource|.
+ *
+ * Infallibly allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must
+ * free with |free|.
+ * Performs an encoding conversion from a UTF-16 string to a UTF-8 string with
+ * unpaired surrogates replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER copying
+ * |aSource| to your new buffer.
+ *
+ * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource|
+ * contains embedded nulls.
+ *
+ * @param aSource a UTF-16 string (made of char16_t's)
+ * @param aUTF8Count the number of 8-bit units that was returned
+ * @return a new |char| buffer you must free with |free|.
+ */
+char* ToNewUTF8String(const nsAString& aSource, uint32_t* aUTF8Count = nullptr);
+
+/* A fallible version of ToNewUTF8String. Returns nullptr on failure. */
+char* ToNewUTF8String(const nsAString& aSource, uint32_t* aUTF8Count,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t& aFallible);
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new |char16_t| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy
+ * of |aSource|.
+ *
+ * Infallibly allocates and returns a new |char16_t| buffer which you must
+ * free with |free|.
+ *
+ * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource|
+ * contains embedded nulls.
+ *
+ * @param aSource a UTF-16 string
+ * @return a new |char16_t| buffer you must free with |free|.
+ */
+char16_t* ToNewUnicode(const nsAString& aSource);
+
+/* A fallible version of ToNewUnicode. Returns nullptr on failure. */
+char16_t* ToNewUnicode(const nsAString& aSource,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t& aFallible);
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new |char16_t| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy
+ * of |aSource|.
+ *
+ * Infallibly allocates and returns a new |char16_t| buffer which you must
+ * free with|free|.
+ *
+ * Performs an encoding conversion by 0-padding 8-bit wide characters up to
+ * 16-bits wide (i.e. Latin1 to UTF-16 conversion) while copying |aSource|
+ * to your new buffer.
+ *
+ * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource|
+ * contains embedded nulls.
+ *
+ * @param aSource a Latin1 string
+ * @return a new |char16_t| buffer you must free with |free|.
+ */
+char16_t* ToNewUnicode(const nsACString& aSource);
+
+/* A fallible version of ToNewUnicode. Returns nullptr on failure. */
+char16_t* ToNewUnicode(const nsACString& aSource,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t& aFallible);
+
+/**
+ * Returns a new |char16_t| buffer containing a zero-terminated copy
+ * of |aSource|.
+ *
+ * Infallibly allocates and returns a new |char| buffer which you must
+ * free with |free|. Performs an encoding conversion from UTF-8 to UTF-16
+ * while copying |aSource| to your new buffer. Malformed byte sequences
+ * are replaced with the REPLACEMENT CHARACTER.
+ *
+ * The new buffer is zero-terminated, but that may not help you if |aSource|
+ * contains embedded nulls.
+ *
+ * @param aSource an 8-bit wide string, UTF-8 encoded
+ * @param aUTF16Count the number of 16-bit units that was returned
+ * @return a new |char16_t| buffer you must free with |free|.
+ * (UTF-16 encoded)
+ */
+char16_t* UTF8ToNewUnicode(const nsACString& aSource,
+ uint32_t* aUTF16Count = nullptr);
+
+/* A fallible version of UTF8ToNewUnicode. Returns nullptr on failure. */
+char16_t* UTF8ToNewUnicode(const nsACString& aSource, uint32_t* aUTF16Count,
+ const mozilla::fallible_t& aFallible);
+
+/**
+ * Copies |aLength| 16-bit code units from the start of |aSource| to the
+ * |char16_t| buffer |aDest|.
+ *
+ * After this operation |aDest| is not null terminated.
+ *
+ * @param aSource a UTF-16 string
+ * @param aSrcOffset start offset in the source string
+ * @param aDest a |char16_t| buffer
+ * @param aLength the number of 16-bit code units to copy
+ * @return pointer to destination buffer - identical to |aDest|
+ */
+char16_t* CopyUnicodeTo(const nsAString& aSource, uint32_t aSrcOffset,
+ char16_t* aDest, uint32_t aLength);
+
+/**
+ * Replaces unpaired surrogates with U+FFFD in the argument.
+ *
+ * Copies a shared string buffer or an otherwise read-only
+ * buffer only if there are unpaired surrogates.
+ */
+[[nodiscard]] inline bool EnsureUTF16Validity(nsAString& aString) {
+ size_t upTo = mozilla::Utf16ValidUpTo(aString);
+ size_t len = aString.Length();
+ if (upTo == len) {
+ return true;
+ }
+ char16_t* ptr = aString.BeginWriting(mozilla::fallible);
+ if (!ptr) {
+ return false;
+ }
+ auto span = mozilla::Span(ptr, len);
+ span[upTo] = 0xFFFD;
+ mozilla::EnsureUtf16ValiditySpan(span.From(upTo + 1));
+ return true;
+}
+
+void ParseString(const nsACString& aSource, char aDelimiter,
+ nsTArray<nsCString>& aArray);
+
+namespace mozilla::detail {
+
+constexpr auto kStringJoinAppendDefault =
+ [](auto& aResult, const auto& aValue) { aResult.Append(aValue); };
+
+} // namespace mozilla::detail
+
+/**
+ * Join a sequence of items, each optionally transformed to a string, with a
+ * given separator, appending to a given string.
+ *
+ * \tparam CharType char or char16_t
+ * \tparam InputRange a range usable with range-based for
+ * \tparam Func optionally, a functor accepting a nsTSubstring<CharType>& and
+ * an item of InputRange which appends the latter to the former
+ */
+template <
+ typename CharType, typename InputRange,
+ typename Func = const decltype(mozilla::detail::kStringJoinAppendDefault)&>
+void StringJoinAppend(
+ nsTSubstring<CharType>& aOutput,
+ const nsTLiteralString<CharType>& aSeparator, const InputRange& aInputRange,
+ Func&& aFunc = mozilla::detail::kStringJoinAppendDefault) {
+ bool first = true;
+ for (const auto& item : aInputRange) {
+ if (first) {
+ first = false;
+ } else {
+ aOutput.Append(aSeparator);
+ }
+
+ aFunc(aOutput, item);
+ }
+}
+
+/**
+ * Join a sequence of items, each optionally transformed to a string, with a
+ * given separator, returning a new string.
+ *
+ * \tparam CharType char or char16_t
+ * \tparam InputRange a range usable with range-based for
+ * \tparam Func optionally, a functor accepting a nsTSubstring<CharType>& and
+ * an item of InputRange which appends the latter to the former
+
+ */
+template <
+ typename CharType, typename InputRange,
+ typename Func = const decltype(mozilla::detail::kStringJoinAppendDefault)&>
+auto StringJoin(const nsTLiteralString<CharType>& aSeparator,
+ const InputRange& aInputRange,
+ Func&& aFunc = mozilla::detail::kStringJoinAppendDefault) {
+ nsTAutoString<CharType> res;
+ StringJoinAppend(res, aSeparator, aInputRange, std::forward<Func>(aFunc));
+ return res;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Converts case in place in the argument string.
+ */
+void ToUpperCase(nsACString&);
+
+void ToLowerCase(nsACString&);
+
+void ToUpperCase(nsACString&);
+
+void ToLowerCase(nsACString&);
+
+/**
+ * Converts case from string aSource to aDest.
+ */
+void ToUpperCase(const nsACString& aSource, nsACString& aDest);
+
+void ToLowerCase(const nsACString& aSource, nsACString& aDest);
+
+/**
+ * Finds the leftmost occurrence of |aPattern|, if any in the range
+ * |aSearchStart|..|aSearchEnd|.
+ *
+ * Returns |true| if a match was found, and adjusts |aSearchStart| and
+ * |aSearchEnd| to point to the match. If no match was found, returns |false|
+ * and makes |aSearchStart == aSearchEnd|.
+ *
+ * Currently, this is equivalent to the O(m*n) implementation previously on
+ * |ns[C]String|.
+ *
+ * If we need something faster, then we can implement that later.
+ */
+
+bool FindInReadable(const nsAString& aPattern, nsAString::const_iterator&,
+ nsAString::const_iterator&,
+ nsStringComparator = nsTDefaultStringComparator);
+bool FindInReadable(const nsACString& aPattern, nsACString::const_iterator&,
+ nsACString::const_iterator&,
+ nsCStringComparator = nsTDefaultStringComparator);
+
+/* sometimes we don't care about where the string was, just that we
+ * found it or not */
+inline bool FindInReadable(
+ const nsAString& aPattern, const nsAString& aSource,
+ nsStringComparator aCompare = nsTDefaultStringComparator) {
+ nsAString::const_iterator start, end;
+ aSource.BeginReading(start);
+ aSource.EndReading(end);
+ return FindInReadable(aPattern, start, end, aCompare);
+}
+
+inline bool FindInReadable(
+ const nsACString& aPattern, const nsACString& aSource,
+ nsCStringComparator aCompare = nsTDefaultStringComparator) {
+ nsACString::const_iterator start, end;
+ aSource.BeginReading(start);
+ aSource.EndReading(end);
+ return FindInReadable(aPattern, start, end, aCompare);
+}
+
+bool CaseInsensitiveFindInReadable(const nsACString& aPattern,
+ nsACString::const_iterator&,
+ nsACString::const_iterator&);
+
+/**
+ * Finds the rightmost occurrence of |aPattern|
+ * Returns |true| if a match was found, and adjusts |aSearchStart| and
+ * |aSearchEnd| to point to the match. If no match was found, returns |false|
+ * and makes |aSearchStart == aSearchEnd|.
+ */
+bool RFindInReadable(const nsAString& aPattern, nsAString::const_iterator&,
+ nsAString::const_iterator&,
+ nsStringComparator = nsTDefaultStringComparator);
+bool RFindInReadable(const nsACString& aPattern, nsACString::const_iterator&,
+ nsACString::const_iterator&,
+ nsCStringComparator = nsTDefaultStringComparator);
+
+/**
+ * Finds the leftmost occurrence of |aChar|, if any in the range
+ * |aSearchStart|..|aSearchEnd|.
+ *
+ * Returns |true| if a match was found, and adjusts |aSearchStart| to
+ * point to the match. If no match was found, returns |false| and
+ * makes |aSearchStart == aSearchEnd|.
+ */
+bool FindCharInReadable(char16_t aChar, nsAString::const_iterator& aSearchStart,
+ const nsAString::const_iterator& aSearchEnd);
+bool FindCharInReadable(char aChar, nsACString::const_iterator& aSearchStart,
+ const nsACString::const_iterator& aSearchEnd);
+
+bool StringBeginsWith(const nsAString& aSource, const nsAString& aSubstring);
+bool StringBeginsWith(const nsAString& aSource, const nsAString& aSubstring,
+ nsStringComparator);
+bool StringBeginsWith(const nsACString& aSource, const nsACString& aSubstring);
+bool StringBeginsWith(const nsACString& aSource, const nsACString& aSubstring,
+ nsCStringComparator);
+bool StringEndsWith(const nsAString& aSource, const nsAString& aSubstring);
+bool StringEndsWith(const nsAString& aSource, const nsAString& aSubstring,
+ nsStringComparator);
+bool StringEndsWith(const nsACString& aSource, const nsACString& aSubstring);
+bool StringEndsWith(const nsACString& aSource, const nsACString& aSubstring,
+ nsCStringComparator);
+
+const nsString& EmptyString();
+const nsCString& EmptyCString();
+
+const nsString& VoidString();
+const nsCString& VoidCString();
+
+/**
+ * Compare a UTF-8 string to an UTF-16 string.
+ *
+ * Returns 0 if the strings are equal, -1 if aUTF8String is less
+ * than aUTF16Count, and 1 in the reverse case. Errors are replaced
+ * with U+FFFD and then the U+FFFD is compared as if it had occurred
+ * in the input. If aErr is not nullptr, *aErr is set to true if
+ * either string had malformed sequences.
+ */
+int32_t CompareUTF8toUTF16(const nsACString& aUTF8String,
+ const nsAString& aUTF16String, bool* aErr = nullptr);
+
+void AppendUCS4ToUTF16(const uint32_t aSource, nsAString& aDest);
+
+#endif // !defined(nsReadableUtils_h___)