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+/** @file
+ * IPRT - String Manipulation, UTF-16 encoding.
+ */
+
+/*
+ * Copyright (C) 2006-2023 Oracle and/or its affiliates.
+ *
+ * This file is part of VirtualBox base platform packages, as
+ * available from https://www.virtualbox.org.
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License
+ * as published by the Free Software Foundation, in version 3 of the
+ * License.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but
+ * WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU
+ * General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, see <https://www.gnu.org/licenses>.
+ *
+ * The contents of this file may alternatively be used under the terms
+ * of the Common Development and Distribution License Version 1.0
+ * (CDDL), a copy of it is provided in the "COPYING.CDDL" file included
+ * in the VirtualBox distribution, in which case the provisions of the
+ * CDDL are applicable instead of those of the GPL.
+ *
+ * You may elect to license modified versions of this file under the
+ * terms and conditions of either the GPL or the CDDL or both.
+ *
+ * SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-3.0-only OR CDDL-1.0
+ */
+
+#ifndef IPRT_INCLUDED_utf16_h
+#define IPRT_INCLUDED_utf16_h
+#ifndef RT_WITHOUT_PRAGMA_ONCE
+# pragma once
+#endif
+
+#include <iprt/string.h>
+
+RT_C_DECLS_BEGIN
+
+
+/** @defgroup rt_str_utf16 UTF-16 String Manipulation
+ * @ingroup grp_rt_str
+ * @{
+ */
+
+/**
+ * Allocates memory for UTF-16 string storage (default tag).
+ *
+ * You should normally not use this function, except if there is some very
+ * custom string handling you need doing that isn't covered by any of the other
+ * APIs.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the allocated UTF-16 string. The first wide char is
+ * always set to the string terminator char, the contents of the
+ * remainder of the memory is undefined. The string must be freed by
+ * calling RTUtf16Free.
+ *
+ * NULL is returned if the allocation failed. Please translate this to
+ * VERR_NO_UTF16_MEMORY and not VERR_NO_MEMORY. Also consider
+ * RTUtf16AllocEx if an IPRT status code is required.
+ *
+ * @param cb How many bytes to allocate, will be rounded up
+ * to a multiple of two. If this is zero, we will
+ * allocate a terminator wide char anyway.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16Alloc(cb) RTUtf16AllocTag((cb), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Allocates memory for UTF-16 string storage (custom tag).
+ *
+ * You should normally not use this function, except if there is some very
+ * custom string handling you need doing that isn't covered by any of the other
+ * APIs.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the allocated UTF-16 string. The first wide char is
+ * always set to the string terminator char, the contents of the
+ * remainder of the memory is undefined. The string must be freed by
+ * calling RTUtf16Free.
+ *
+ * NULL is returned if the allocation failed. Please translate this to
+ * VERR_NO_UTF16_MEMORY and not VERR_NO_MEMORY. Also consider
+ * RTUtf16AllocExTag if an IPRT status code is required.
+ *
+ * @param cb How many bytes to allocate, will be rounded up
+ * to a multiple of two. If this is zero, we will
+ * allocate a terminator wide char anyway.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16AllocTag(size_t cb, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Reallocates the specified UTF-16 string (default tag).
+ *
+ * You should normally not use this function, except if there is some very
+ * custom string handling you need doing that isn't covered by any of the other
+ * APIs.
+ *
+ * @returns VINF_SUCCESS.
+ * @retval VERR_NO_UTF16_MEMORY if we failed to reallocate the string, @a
+ * *ppwsz remains unchanged.
+ *
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string variable containing the
+ * input and output string.
+ *
+ * When not freeing the string, the result will
+ * always have the last RTUTF16 set to the
+ * terminator character so that when used for
+ * string truncation the result will be a valid
+ * C-style string (your job to keep it a valid
+ * UTF-16 string).
+ *
+ * When the input string is NULL and we're supposed
+ * to reallocate, the returned string will also
+ * have the first RTUTF16 set to the terminator
+ * char so it will be a valid C-style string.
+ *
+ * @param cbNew When @a cbNew is zero, we'll behave like
+ * RTUtf16Free and @a *ppwsz will be set to NULL.
+ *
+ * When not zero, this will be rounded up to a
+ * multiple of two, and used as the new size of the
+ * memory backing the string, i.e. it includes the
+ * terminator (RTUTF16) char.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16Realloc(ppwsz, cbNew) RTUtf16ReallocTag((ppwsz), (cbNew), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Reallocates the specified UTF-16 string (custom tag).
+ *
+ * You should normally not use this function, except if there is some very
+ * custom string handling you need doing that isn't covered by any of the other
+ * APIs.
+ *
+ * @returns VINF_SUCCESS.
+ * @retval VERR_NO_UTF16_MEMORY if we failed to reallocate the string, @a
+ * *ppwsz remains unchanged.
+ *
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string variable containing the
+ * input and output string.
+ *
+ * When not freeing the string, the result will
+ * always have the last RTUTF16 set to the
+ * terminator character so that when used for
+ * string truncation the result will be a valid
+ * C-style string (your job to keep it a valid
+ * UTF-16 string).
+ *
+ * When the input string is NULL and we're supposed
+ * to reallocate, the returned string will also
+ * have the first RTUTF16 set to the terminator
+ * char so it will be a valid C-style string.
+ *
+ * @param cbNew When @a cbNew is zero, we'll behave like
+ * RTUtf16Free and @a *ppwsz will be set to NULL.
+ *
+ * When not zero, this will be rounded up to a
+ * multiple of two, and used as the new size of the
+ * memory backing the string, i.e. it includes the
+ * terminator (RTUTF16) char.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ReallocTag(PRTUTF16 *ppwsz, size_t cbNew, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Free a UTF-16 string allocated by RTStrToUtf16(), RTStrToUtf16Ex(),
+ * RTLatin1ToUtf16(), RTLatin1ToUtf16Ex(), RTUtf16Dup() or RTUtf16DupEx().
+ *
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16 string to free. NULL is accepted.
+ */
+RTDECL(void) RTUtf16Free(PRTUTF16 pwszString);
+
+/**
+ * Allocates a new copy of the specified UTF-16 string (default tag).
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the allocated string copy. Use RTUtf16Free() to free it.
+ * @returns NULL when out of memory.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to duplicate.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16Dup(pwszString) RTUtf16DupTag((pwszString), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Allocates a new copy of the specified UTF-16 string (custom tag).
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the allocated string copy. Use RTUtf16Free() to free it.
+ * @returns NULL when out of memory.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to duplicate.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16DupTag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Allocates a new copy of the specified UTF-16 string (default tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwszString Receives pointer of the allocated UTF-16 string.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTUtf16Free().
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to duplicate.
+ * @param cwcExtra Number of extra RTUTF16 items to allocate.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16DupEx(ppwszString, pwszString, cwcExtra) \
+ RTUtf16DupExTag((ppwszString), (pwszString), (cwcExtra), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Allocates a new copy of the specified UTF-16 string (custom tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwszString Receives pointer of the allocated UTF-16 string.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTUtf16Free().
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to duplicate.
+ * @param cwcExtra Number of extra RTUTF16 items to allocate.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16DupExTag(PRTUTF16 *ppwszString, PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcExtra, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Returns the length of a UTF-16 string in UTF-16 characters
+ * without trailing '\\0'.
+ *
+ * Surrogate pairs counts as two UTF-16 characters here. Use RTUtf16CpCnt()
+ * to get the exact number of code points in the string.
+ *
+ * @returns The number of RTUTF16 items in the string.
+ * @param pwszString Pointer the UTF-16 string.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+RTDECL(size_t) RTUtf16Len(PCRTUTF16 pwszString);
+
+/**
+ * Find the length of a zero-terminated byte string, given a max string length.
+ *
+ * @returns The string length or cbMax. The returned length does not include
+ * the zero terminator if it was found.
+ *
+ * @param pwszString The string.
+ * @param cwcMax The max string length in RTUTF16s.
+ * @sa RTUtf16NLenEx, RTStrNLen.
+ */
+RTDECL(size_t) RTUtf16NLen(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcMax);
+
+/**
+ * Find the length of a zero-terminated byte string, given
+ * a max string length.
+ *
+ * @returns IPRT status code.
+ * @retval VINF_SUCCESS if the string has a length less than cchMax.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the end of the string wasn't found
+ * before cwcMax was reached.
+ *
+ * @param pwszString The string.
+ * @param cwcMax The max string length in RTUTF16s.
+ * @param pcwc Where to store the string length excluding the
+ * terminator. This is set to cwcMax if the terminator
+ * isn't found.
+ * @sa RTUtf16NLen, RTStrNLenEx.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16NLenEx(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcMax, size_t *pcwc);
+
+/**
+ * Find the zero terminator in a string with a limited length.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the zero terminator.
+ * @returns NULL if the zero terminator was not found.
+ *
+ * @param pwszString The string.
+ * @param cwcMax The max string length. RTSTR_MAX is fine.
+ */
+RTDECL(PCRTUTF16) RTUtf16End(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcMax);
+
+/**
+ * Finds a give UTF-16 character in a UTF-16 string.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the first occurence of @a wc.
+ * @returns NULL if @a wc was not found.
+ *
+ * @param pwszString The string to search.
+ * @param wc The UTF-16 character to search for.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16Chr(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, RTUTF16 wc);
+
+/**
+ * Strips blankspaces from both ends of the string.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to first non-blank char in the string.
+ * @param pwsz The string to strip.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16Strip(PRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Strips blankspaces from the start of the string.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to first non-blank char in the string.
+ * @param pwsz The string to strip.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16StripL(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Strips blankspaces from the end of the string.
+ *
+ * @returns pwsz.
+ * @param pwsz The string to strip.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16StripR(PRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * String copy with overflow handling.
+ *
+ * @retval VINF_SUCCESS on success.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the destination buffer is too small. The
+ * buffer will contain as much of the string as it can hold, fully
+ * terminated.
+ *
+ * @param pwszDst The destination buffer.
+ * @param cwcDst The size of the destination buffer in RTUTF16s.
+ * @param pwszSrc The source string. NULL is not OK.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16Copy(PRTUTF16 pwszDst, size_t cwcDst, PCRTUTF16 pwszSrc);
+
+/**
+ * String copy with overflow handling, ASCII source.
+ *
+ * @retval VINF_SUCCESS on success.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the destination buffer is too small. The
+ * buffer will contain as much of the string as it can hold, fully
+ * terminated.
+ *
+ * @param pwszDst The destination buffer.
+ * @param cwcDst The size of the destination buffer in RTUTF16s.
+ * @param pszSrc The source string, pure ASCII. NULL is not OK.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CopyAscii(PRTUTF16 pwszDst, size_t cwcDst, const char *pszSrc);
+
+/**
+ * String copy with overflow handling.
+ *
+ * @retval VINF_SUCCESS on success.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the destination buffer is too small. The
+ * buffer will contain as much of the string as it can hold, fully
+ * terminated.
+ *
+ * @param pwszDst The destination buffer.
+ * @param cwcDst The size of the destination buffer in RTUTF16s.
+ * @param pwszSrc The source string. NULL is not OK.
+ * @param cwcSrcMax The maximum number of chars (not code points) to
+ * copy from the source string, not counting the
+ * terminator as usual.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CopyEx(PRTUTF16 pwszDst, size_t cwcDst, PCRTUTF16 pwszSrc, size_t cwcSrcMax);
+
+/**
+ * String concatenation with overflow handling.
+ *
+ * @retval VINF_SUCCESS on success.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the destination buffer is too small. The
+ * buffer will contain as much of the string as it can hold, fully
+ * terminated.
+ *
+ * @param pwszDst The destination buffer.
+ * @param cwcDst The size of the destination buffer in RTUTF16s.
+ * @param pwszSrc The source string. NULL is not OK.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16Cat(PRTUTF16 pwszDst, size_t cwcDst, PCRTUTF16 pwszSrc);
+
+/**
+ * String concatenation with overflow handling, ASCII source.
+ *
+ * @retval VINF_SUCCESS on success.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the destination buffer is too small. The
+ * buffer will contain as much of the string as it can hold, fully
+ * terminated.
+ *
+ * @param pwszDst The destination buffer.
+ * @param cwcDst The size of the destination buffer in RTUTF16s.
+ * @param pszSrc The source string, pure ASCII. NULL is not OK.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CatAscii(PRTUTF16 pwszDst, size_t cwcDst, const char *pszSrc);
+
+/**
+ * String concatenation with overflow handling.
+ *
+ * @retval VINF_SUCCESS on success.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the destination buffer is too small. The
+ * buffer will contain as much of the string as it can hold, fully
+ * terminated.
+ *
+ * @param pwszDst The destination buffer.
+ * @param cwcDst The size of the destination buffer in RTUTF16s.
+ * @param pwszSrc The source string. NULL is not OK.
+ * @param cwcSrcMax The maximum number of UTF-16 chars (not code
+ * points) to copy from the source string, not
+ * counting the terminator as usual.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CatEx(PRTUTF16 pwszDst, size_t cwcDst, PCRTUTF16 pwszSrc, size_t cwcSrcMax);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case sensitive string compare between two UTF-16 strings.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param pwsz2 Second UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16Cmp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, PCRTUTF16 pwsz2);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case sensitive string compare between an UTF-16 string and a pure
+ * ASCII string.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param psz2 Second string, pure ASCII. Null is allowed.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CmpAscii(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, const char *psz2);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case sensitive string compare between an UTF-16 string and a UTF-8
+ * string.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param psz2 Second string, UTF-8. Null is allowed.
+ * @remarks NULL and empty strings are treated equally.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CmpUtf8(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, const char *psz2);
+
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case sensitive and length limited string compare between two UTF-16 strings.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param pwsz2 Second UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param cwcMax Maximum number of characters (RTUTF16) from the first
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16NCmp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, PCRTUTF16 pwsz2, size_t cwcMax);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case sensitive and length limited string compare between an UTF-16
+ * string and a pure ASCII string.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param psz2 Second string, pure ASCII. Null is allowed.
+ * @param cwcMax Maximum number of characters (RTUTF16) to compare.
+ * @remark This function will not make any attempt to validate the encoding.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16NCmpAscii(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, const char *psz2, size_t cwcMax);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case sensitive and length limited string compare between an UTF-16
+ * string and a UTF-8 string.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param psz2 Second string, UTF-8. Null is allowed.
+ * @param cwcMax1 Maximum number of UTF-16 characters (RTUTF16) from the
+ * first string to compare.
+ * @param cchMax2 Maximum number of UTF-8 characters (char) from the
+ * second string to compare.
+ * @remarks NULL and empty strings are treated equally.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16NCmpUtf8(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, const char *psz2, size_t cwcMax1, size_t cchMax2);
+
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between two UTF-16 strings.
+ *
+ * This is a simplified compare, as only the simplified lower/upper case folding
+ * specified by the unicode specs are used. It does not consider character pairs
+ * as they are used in some languages, just simple upper & lower case compares.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param pwsz2 Second UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ICmp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, PCRTUTF16 pwsz2);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between two big endian UTF-16
+ * strings.
+ *
+ * This is a simplified compare, as only the simplified lower/upper case folding
+ * specified by the unicode specs are used. It does not consider character pairs
+ * as they are used in some languages, just simple upper & lower case compares.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First big endian UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param pwsz2 Second big endian UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16BigICmp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, PCRTUTF16 pwsz2);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between an UTF-16 string and a
+ * UTF-8 string.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.s
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param psz2 Second string, UTF-8. Null is allowed.
+ * @remarks NULL and empty strings are treated equally.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ICmpUtf8(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, const char *psz2);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between an UTF-16 string and a
+ * pure ASCII string.
+ *
+ * Since this compare only takes cares about the first 128 codepoints in
+ * unicode, no tables are needed and there aren't any real complications.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param psz2 Second string, pure ASCII. Null is allowed.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ICmpAscii(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, const char *psz2);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between two UTF-16 strings
+ * using the current locale of the process (if applicable).
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ICmp() in that it will try, if a locale with the
+ * required data is available, to do a correct case-insensitive compare. It
+ * follows that it is more complex and thereby likely to be more expensive.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param pwsz2 Second UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16LocaleICmp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, PCRTUTF16 pwsz2);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between two UTF-16 strings,
+ * stopping after N characters.
+ *
+ * This is a simplified compare, as only the simplified lower/upper case folding
+ * specified by the unicode specs are used. It does not consider character pairs
+ * as they are used in some languages, just simple upper & lower case compares.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param pwsz2 Second UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param cwcMax Maximum number of characters to compare.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16NICmp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, PCRTUTF16 pwsz2, size_t cwcMax);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between two big endian UTF-16
+ * strings, stopping after N characters.
+ *
+ * This is a simplified compare, as only the simplified lower/upper case folding
+ * specified by the unicode specs are used. It does not consider character pairs
+ * as they are used in some languages, just simple upper & lower case compares.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 First big endian UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param pwsz2 Second big endian UTF-16 string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param cwcMax Maximum number of characters to compare.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16BigNICmp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, PCRTUTF16 pwsz2, size_t cwcMax);
+
+/**
+ * Performs a case insensitive string compare between a UTF-16 string and a pure
+ * ASCII string, stopping after N characters.
+ *
+ * Since this compare only takes cares about the first 128 codepoints in
+ * unicode, no tables are needed and there aren't any real complications.
+ *
+ * @returns < 0 if the first string less than the second string.
+ * @returns 0 if the first string identical to the second string.
+ * @returns > 0 if the first string greater than the second string.
+ * @param pwsz1 The UTF-16 first string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param psz2 The pure ASCII second string. Null is allowed.
+ * @param cwcMax Maximum number of UTF-16 characters to compare.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16NICmpAscii(PCRTUTF16 pwsz1, const char *psz2, size_t cwcMax);
+
+
+/**
+ * Locates a substring, ascii version.
+ *
+ * @returns Offset into @a pwszString of the substring if found, -1 if not.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16 to search. NULL is allowed (no match).
+ * @param pszSubStr The pure ASCII substring to locate. NULL is allowed (not
+ * matching anything, just like an empty string).
+ */
+RTDECL(ssize_t) RTUtf16FindAscii(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, const char *pszSubStr);
+
+
+/**
+ * Folds a UTF-16 string to lowercase.
+ *
+ * This is a very simple folding; is uses the simple lowercase
+ * code point, it is not related to any locale just the most common
+ * lowercase codepoint setup by the unicode specs, and it will not
+ * create new surrogate pairs or remove existing ones.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the passed in string.
+ * @param pwsz The string to fold.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16ToLower(PRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Folds a UTF-16 string to uppercase.
+ *
+ * This is a very simple folding; is uses the simple uppercase
+ * code point, it is not related to any locale just the most common
+ * uppercase codepoint setup by the unicode specs, and it will not
+ * create new surrogate pairs or remove existing ones.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the passed in string.
+ * @param pwsz The string to fold.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16ToUpper(PRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Validates the UTF-16 encoding of the string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ValidateEncoding(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Validates the UTF-16 encoding of the string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ * @param cwc The max string length (/ size) in UTF-16 units. Use
+ * RTSTR_MAX to process the entire string.
+ * @param fFlags Combination of RTSTR_VALIDATE_ENCODING_XXX flags.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ValidateEncodingEx(PCRTUTF16 pwsz, size_t cwc, uint32_t fFlags);
+
+/**
+ * Checks if the UTF-16 encoding is valid.
+ *
+ * @returns true / false.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ */
+RTDECL(bool) RTUtf16IsValidEncoding(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Sanitise a (valid) UTF-16 string by replacing all characters outside a white
+ * list in-place by an ASCII replacement character.
+ *
+ * Surrogate paris will be replaced by two chars.
+ *
+ * @returns The number of code points replaced. In the case of an incorrectly
+ * encoded string -1 will be returned, and the string is not completely
+ * processed. In the case of puszValidPairs having an odd number of
+ * code points, -1 will be also return but without any modification to
+ * the string.
+ * @param pwsz The string to sanitise.
+ * @param puszValidPairs A zero-terminated array of pairs of Unicode points.
+ * Each pair is the start and end point of a range,
+ * and the union of these ranges forms the white list.
+ * @param chReplacement The ASCII replacement character.
+ * @sa RTStrPurgeComplementSet
+ */
+RTDECL(ssize_t) RTUtf16PurgeComplementSet(PRTUTF16 pwsz, PCRTUNICP puszValidPairs, char chReplacement);
+
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16 string into a UTF-8 allocating the result buffer (default
+ * tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated UTF-8 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ */
+#define RTUtf16ToUtf8(pwszString, ppszString) RTUtf16ToUtf8Tag((pwszString), (ppszString), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16 string into a UTF-8 allocating the result buffer.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated UTF-8 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ToUtf8Tag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, char **ppszString, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16BE string into a UTF-8 allocating the result buffer
+ * (default tag).
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8 in that the input is always a
+ * big-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16BE string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated UTF-8 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ */
+#define RTUtf16BigToUtf8(pwszString, ppszString) RTUtf16BigToUtf8Tag((pwszString), (ppszString), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16BE string into a UTF-8 allocating the result buffer.
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8Tag in that the input is always a
+ * big-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16BE string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated UTF-8 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16BigToUtf8Tag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, char **ppszString, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16LE string into a UTF-8 allocating the result buffer
+ * (default tag).
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8 in that the input is always a
+ * little-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16LE string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated UTF-8 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ */
+#define RTUtf16LittleToUtf8(pwszString, ppszString) RTUtf16LittleToUtf8Tag((pwszString), (ppszString), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16LE string into a UTF-8 allocating the result buffer.
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8Tag in that the input is always a
+ * little-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16LE string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated UTF-8 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16LittleToUtf8Tag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, char **ppszString, const char *pszTag);
+
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16 to UTF-8 using buffer provided by the caller or a fittingly
+ * sized buffer allocated by the function (default tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from pwszString.
+ * The translation will stop when reaching cwcString or the terminator ('\\0').
+ * Use RTSTR_MAX to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz If cch is non-zero, this must either be pointing to a pointer to
+ * a buffer of the specified size, or pointer to a NULL pointer.
+ * If *ppsz is NULL or cch is zero a buffer of at least cch chars
+ * will be allocated to hold the translated string.
+ * If a buffer was requested it must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16ToUtf8Ex(pwszString, cwcString, ppsz, cch, pcch) \
+ RTUtf16ToUtf8ExTag((pwszString), (cwcString), (ppsz), (cch), (pcch), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16 to UTF-8 using buffer provided by the caller or a fittingly
+ * sized buffer allocated by the function (custom tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from pwszString.
+ * The translation will stop when reaching cwcString or the terminator ('\\0').
+ * Use RTSTR_MAX to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz If cch is non-zero, this must either be pointing to a pointer to
+ * a buffer of the specified size, or pointer to a NULL pointer.
+ * If *ppsz is NULL or cch is zero a buffer of at least cch chars
+ * will be allocated to hold the translated string.
+ * If a buffer was requested it must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ToUtf8ExTag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcString, char **ppsz, size_t cch, size_t *pcch, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16BE to UTF-8 using buffer provided by the caller or a
+ * fittingly sized buffer allocated by the function (default tag).
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8Ex in that the input is always a
+ * big-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16BE string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from pwszString.
+ * The translation will stop when reaching cwcString or the terminator ('\\0').
+ * Use RTSTR_MAX to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz If cch is non-zero, this must either be pointing to a pointer to
+ * a buffer of the specified size, or pointer to a NULL pointer.
+ * If *ppsz is NULL or cch is zero a buffer of at least cch chars
+ * will be allocated to hold the translated string.
+ * If a buffer was requested it must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16BigToUtf8Ex(pwszString, cwcString, ppsz, cch, pcch) \
+ RTUtf16BigToUtf8ExTag((pwszString), (cwcString), (ppsz), (cch), (pcch), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16BE to UTF-8 using buffer provided by the caller or a
+ * fittingly sized buffer allocated by the function (custom tag).
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8ExTag in that the input is always a
+ * big-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16BE string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from pwszString.
+ * The translation will stop when reaching cwcString or the terminator ('\\0').
+ * Use RTSTR_MAX to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz If cch is non-zero, this must either be pointing to a pointer to
+ * a buffer of the specified size, or pointer to a NULL pointer.
+ * If *ppsz is NULL or cch is zero a buffer of at least cch chars
+ * will be allocated to hold the translated string.
+ * If a buffer was requested it must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16BigToUtf8ExTag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcString, char **ppsz, size_t cch, size_t *pcch, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16LE to UTF-8 using buffer provided by the caller or a
+ * fittingly sized buffer allocated by the function (default tag).
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8Ex in that the input is always a
+ * little-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16LE string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from pwszString.
+ * The translation will stop when reaching cwcString or the terminator ('\\0').
+ * Use RTSTR_MAX to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz If cch is non-zero, this must either be pointing to a pointer to
+ * a buffer of the specified size, or pointer to a NULL pointer.
+ * If *ppsz is NULL or cch is zero a buffer of at least cch chars
+ * will be allocated to hold the translated string.
+ * If a buffer was requested it must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16LittleToUtf8Ex(pwszString, cwcString, ppsz, cch, pcch) \
+ RTUtf16LittleToUtf8ExTag((pwszString), (cwcString), (ppsz), (cch), (pcch), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16LE to UTF-8 using buffer provided by the caller or a
+ * fittingly sized buffer allocated by the function (custom tag).
+ *
+ * This differs from RTUtf16ToUtf8ExTag in that the input is always a
+ * little-endian string.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16LE string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from pwszString.
+ * The translation will stop when reaching cwcString or the terminator ('\\0').
+ * Use RTSTR_MAX to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz If cch is non-zero, this must either be pointing to a pointer to
+ * a buffer of the specified size, or pointer to a NULL pointer.
+ * If *ppsz is NULL or cch is zero a buffer of at least cch chars
+ * will be allocated to hold the translated string.
+ * If a buffer was requested it must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16LittleToUtf8ExTag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcString, char **ppsz, size_t cch, size_t *pcch,
+ const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16 string in UTF-8 chars (bytes).
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16
+ * strings will be rejected. The primary purpose of this function is to
+ * help allocate buffers for RTUtf16ToUtf8() of the correct size. For most
+ * other purposes RTUtf16ToUtf8Ex() should be used.
+ *
+ * @returns Number of char (bytes).
+ * @returns 0 if the string was incorrectly encoded.
+ * @param pwsz The UTF-16 string.
+ */
+RTDECL(size_t) RTUtf16CalcUtf8Len(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16BE string in UTF-8 chars (bytes).
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16BE
+ * strings will be rejected. The primary purpose of this function is to
+ * help allocate buffers for RTUtf16BigToUtf8() of the correct size. For most
+ * other purposes RTUtf16BigToUtf8Ex() should be used.
+ *
+ * @returns Number of char (bytes).
+ * @returns 0 if the string was incorrectly encoded.
+ * @param pwsz The UTF-16BE string.
+ */
+RTDECL(size_t) RTUtf16BigCalcUtf8Len(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16LE string in UTF-8 chars (bytes).
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16LE
+ * strings will be rejected. The primary purpose of this function is to
+ * help allocate buffers for RTUtf16LittleToUtf8() of the correct size. For
+ * most other purposes RTUtf16LittleToUtf8Ex() should be used.
+ *
+ * @returns Number of char (bytes).
+ * @returns 0 if the string was incorrectly encoded.
+ * @param pwsz The UTF-16LE string.
+ */
+RTDECL(size_t) RTUtf16LittleCalcUtf8Len(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16 string in UTF-8 chars (bytes).
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16
+ * strings will be rejected.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ * @param cwc The max string length. Use RTSTR_MAX to process the entire string.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the string length (in bytes). Optional.
+ * This is undefined on failure.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CalcUtf8LenEx(PCRTUTF16 pwsz, size_t cwc, size_t *pcch);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16BE string in UTF-8 chars (bytes).
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16BE
+ * strings will be rejected.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ * @param cwc The max string length. Use RTSTR_MAX to process the entire string.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the string length (in bytes). Optional.
+ * This is undefined on failure.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16BigCalcUtf8LenEx(PCRTUTF16 pwsz, size_t cwc, size_t *pcch);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16LE string in UTF-8 chars (bytes).
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16LE
+ * strings will be rejected.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ * @param cwc The max string length. Use RTSTR_MAX to process the entire string.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the string length (in bytes). Optional.
+ * This is undefined on failure.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16LittleCalcUtf8LenEx(PCRTUTF16 pwsz, size_t cwc, size_t *pcch);
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16 string into a Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) allocating the result
+ * buffer (default tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated Latin1 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ */
+#define RTUtf16ToLatin1(pwszString, ppszString) RTUtf16ToLatin1Tag((pwszString), (ppszString), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translate a UTF-16 string into a Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) allocating the result
+ * buffer (custom tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param ppszString Receives pointer of allocated Latin1 string on
+ * success, and is always set to NULL on failure.
+ * The returned pointer must be freed using RTStrFree().
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ToLatin1Tag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, char **ppszString, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16 to Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) using buffer provided by the caller
+ * or a fittingly sized buffer allocated by the function (default tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from
+ * pwszString. The translation will stop when reaching
+ * cwcString or the terminator ('\\0'). Use RTSTR_MAX
+ * to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz Pointer to the pointer to the Latin-1 string. The
+ * buffer can optionally be preallocated by the caller.
+ *
+ * If cch is zero, *ppsz is undefined.
+ *
+ * If cch is non-zero and *ppsz is not NULL, then this
+ * will be used as the output buffer.
+ * VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW will be returned if this is
+ * insufficient.
+ *
+ * If cch is zero or *ppsz is NULL, then a buffer of
+ * sufficient size is allocated. cch can be used to
+ * specify a minimum size of this buffer. Use
+ * RTUtf16Free() to free the result.
+ *
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes
+ * the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ */
+#define RTUtf16ToLatin1Ex(pwszString, cwcString, ppsz, cch, pcch) \
+ RTUtf16ToLatin1ExTag((pwszString), (cwcString), (ppsz), (cch), (pcch), RTSTR_TAG)
+
+/**
+ * Translates UTF-16 to Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) using buffer provided by the caller
+ * or a fittingly sized buffer allocated by the function (custom tag).
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwszString The UTF-16 string to convert.
+ * @param cwcString The number of RTUTF16 items to translate from
+ * pwszString. The translation will stop when reaching
+ * cwcString or the terminator ('\\0'). Use RTSTR_MAX
+ * to translate the entire string.
+ * @param ppsz Pointer to the pointer to the Latin-1 string. The
+ * buffer can optionally be preallocated by the caller.
+ *
+ * If cch is zero, *ppsz is undefined.
+ *
+ * If cch is non-zero and *ppsz is not NULL, then this
+ * will be used as the output buffer.
+ * VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW will be returned if this is
+ * insufficient.
+ *
+ * If cch is zero or *ppsz is NULL, then a buffer of
+ * sufficient size is allocated. cch can be used to
+ * specify a minimum size of this buffer. Use
+ * RTUtf16Free() to free the result.
+ *
+ * @param cch The buffer size in chars (the type). This includes
+ * the terminator.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the length of the translated string,
+ * excluding the terminator. (Optional)
+ *
+ * This may be set under some error conditions,
+ * however, only for VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW and
+ * VERR_NO_STR_MEMORY will it contain a valid string
+ * length that can be used to resize the buffer.
+ * @param pszTag Allocation tag used for statistics and such.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16ToLatin1ExTag(PCRTUTF16 pwszString, size_t cwcString, char **ppsz, size_t cch, size_t *pcch, const char *pszTag);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16 string in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) chars.
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16
+ * strings will be rejected. The primary purpose of this function is to
+ * help allocate buffers for RTUtf16ToLatin1() of the correct size. For most
+ * other purposes RTUtf16ToLatin1Ex() should be used.
+ *
+ * @returns Number of char (bytes).
+ * @returns 0 if the string was incorrectly encoded.
+ * @param pwsz The UTF-16 string.
+ */
+RTDECL(size_t) RTUtf16CalcLatin1Len(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Calculates the length of the UTF-16 string in Latin-1 (ISO-8859-1) chars.
+ *
+ * This function will validate the string, and incorrectly encoded UTF-16
+ * strings will be rejected.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ * @param cwc The max string length. Use RTSTR_MAX to process the
+ * entire string.
+ * @param pcch Where to store the string length (in bytes). Optional.
+ * This is undefined on failure.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16CalcLatin1LenEx(PCRTUTF16 pwsz, size_t cwc, size_t *pcch);
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position.
+ *
+ * @returns unicode code point.
+ * @returns RTUNICP_INVALID if the encoding is invalid.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ *
+ * @remark This is an internal worker for RTUtf16GetCp().
+ */
+RTDECL(RTUNICP) RTUtf16GetCpInternal(PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string pointer. This will be updated to
+ * point to the char following the current code point.
+ * @param pCp Where to store the code point.
+ * RTUNICP_INVALID is stored here on failure.
+ *
+ * @remark This is an internal worker for RTUtf16GetCpEx().
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16GetCpExInternal(PCRTUTF16 *ppwsz, PRTUNICP pCp);
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position with length
+ * restriction.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string pointer. This will be updated to
+ * point to the char following the current code point.
+ * @param pcwc Pointer to the max string length. This will be
+ * decremented corrsponding to the advancement of @a ppwsz.
+ * @param pCp Where to store the code point.
+ * RTUNICP_INVALID is stored here on failure.
+ *
+ * @remark This is an internal worker for RTUtf16GetCpNEx().
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16GetCpNExInternal(PCRTUTF16 *ppwsz, size_t *pcwc, PRTUNICP pCp);
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position, big endian.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string pointer. This will be updated to
+ * point to the char following the current code point.
+ * @param pCp Where to store the code point.
+ * RTUNICP_INVALID is stored here on failure.
+ *
+ * @remark This is an internal worker for RTUtf16BigGetCpEx().
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16BigGetCpExInternal(PCRTUTF16 *ppwsz, PRTUNICP pCp);
+
+/**
+ * Put the unicode code point at the given string position
+ * and return the pointer to the char following it.
+ *
+ * This function will not consider anything at or following the
+ * buffer area pointed to by pwsz. It is therefore not suitable for
+ * inserting code points into a string, only appending/overwriting.
+ *
+ * @returns pointer to the char following the written code point.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ * @param CodePoint The code point to write.
+ * This should not be RTUNICP_INVALID or any other
+ * character out of the UTF-16 range.
+ *
+ * @remark This is an internal worker for RTUtf16GetCpEx().
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16PutCpInternal(PRTUTF16 pwsz, RTUNICP CodePoint);
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position.
+ *
+ * @returns unicode code point.
+ * @returns RTUNICP_INVALID if the encoding is invalid.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ *
+ * @remark We optimize this operation by using an inline function for
+ * everything which isn't a surrogate pair or an endian indicator.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(RTUNICP) RTUtf16GetCp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz)
+{
+ const RTUTF16 wc = *pwsz;
+ if (wc < 0xd800 || (wc > 0xdfff && wc < 0xfffe))
+ return wc;
+ return RTUtf16GetCpInternal(pwsz);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string pointer. This will be updated to
+ * point to the char following the current code point.
+ * @param pCp Where to store the code point.
+ * RTUNICP_INVALID is stored here on failure.
+ *
+ * @remark We optimize this operation by using an inline function for
+ * everything which isn't a surrogate pair or and endian indicator.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(int) RTUtf16GetCpEx(PCRTUTF16 *ppwsz, PRTUNICP pCp)
+{
+ const RTUTF16 wc = **ppwsz;
+ if (wc < 0xd800 || (wc > 0xdfff && wc < 0xfffe))
+ {
+ (*ppwsz)++;
+ *pCp = wc;
+ return VINF_SUCCESS;
+ }
+ return RTUtf16GetCpExInternal(ppwsz, pCp);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string pointer. This will be updated to
+ * point to the char following the current code point.
+ * @param pcwc Pointer to the max string length. This will be
+ * decremented corrsponding to the advancement of @a ppwsz.
+ * @param pCp Where to store the code point. RTUNICP_INVALID is stored
+ * here on failure.
+ *
+ * @remark We optimize this operation by using an inline function for
+ * everything which isn't a surrogate pair or and endian indicator.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(int) RTUtf16GetCpNEx(PCRTUTF16 *ppwsz, size_t *pcwc, PRTUNICP pCp)
+{
+ const size_t cwc = *pcwc;
+ if (cwc > 0)
+ {
+ const PCRTUTF16 pwsz = *ppwsz;
+ const RTUTF16 wc = *pwsz;
+ if (wc < 0xd800 || (wc > 0xdfff && wc < 0xfffe))
+ {
+ *pCp = wc;
+ *pcwc = cwc - 1;
+ *ppwsz = pwsz + 1;
+ return VINF_SUCCESS;
+ }
+ }
+ return RTUtf16GetCpNExInternal(ppwsz, pcwc, pCp);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Get the unicode code point at the given string position, big endian version.
+ *
+ * @returns iprt status code.
+ * @param ppwsz Pointer to the string pointer. This will be updated to
+ * point to the char following the current code point.
+ * @param pCp Where to store the code point.
+ * RTUNICP_INVALID is stored here on failure.
+ *
+ * @remark We optimize this operation by using an inline function for
+ * everything which isn't a surrogate pair or and endian indicator.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(int) RTUtf16BigGetCpEx(PCRTUTF16 *ppwsz, PRTUNICP pCp)
+{
+#ifdef RT_BIG_ENDIAN
+ return RTUtf16GetCpEx(ppwsz, pCp);
+#else
+# ifdef IPRT_INCLUDED_asm_h
+ const RTUTF16 wc = RT_BE2H_U16(**ppwsz);
+ if (wc < 0xd800 || (wc > 0xdfff && wc < 0xfffe))
+ {
+ (*ppwsz)++;
+ *pCp = wc;
+ return VINF_SUCCESS;
+ }
+# endif
+ return RTUtf16BigGetCpExInternal(ppwsz, pCp);
+#endif
+}
+
+/**
+ * Put the unicode code point at the given string position
+ * and return the pointer to the char following it.
+ *
+ * This function will not consider anything at or following the
+ * buffer area pointed to by pwsz. It is therefore not suitable for
+ * inserting code points into a string, only appending/overwriting.
+ *
+ * @returns pointer to the char following the written code point.
+ * @param pwsz The string.
+ * @param CodePoint The code point to write.
+ * This should not be RTUNICP_INVALID or any other
+ * character out of the UTF-16 range.
+ *
+ * @remark We optimize this operation by using an inline function for
+ * everything which isn't a surrogate pair or and endian indicator.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16PutCp(PRTUTF16 pwsz, RTUNICP CodePoint)
+{
+ if (CodePoint < 0xd800 || (CodePoint > 0xd800 && CodePoint < 0xfffe))
+ {
+ *pwsz++ = (RTUTF16)CodePoint;
+ return pwsz;
+ }
+ return RTUtf16PutCpInternal(pwsz, CodePoint);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Skips ahead, past the current code point.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the char after the current code point.
+ * @param pwsz Pointer to the current code point.
+ * @remark This will not move the next valid code point, only past the current one.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16NextCp(PCRTUTF16 pwsz)
+{
+ RTUNICP Cp;
+ RTUtf16GetCpEx(&pwsz, &Cp);
+ return (PRTUTF16)pwsz;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Skips backwards, to the previous code point.
+ *
+ * @returns Pointer to the char after the current code point.
+ * @param pwszStart Pointer to the start of the string.
+ * @param pwsz Pointer to the current code point.
+ */
+RTDECL(PRTUTF16) RTUtf16PrevCp(PCRTUTF16 pwszStart, PCRTUTF16 pwsz);
+
+
+/**
+ * Checks if the UTF-16 char is the high surrogate char (i.e.
+ * the 1st char in the pair).
+ *
+ * @returns true if it is.
+ * @returns false if it isn't.
+ * @param wc The character to investigate.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(bool) RTUtf16IsHighSurrogate(RTUTF16 wc)
+{
+ return wc >= 0xd800 && wc <= 0xdbff;
+}
+
+/**
+ * Checks if the UTF-16 char is the low surrogate char (i.e.
+ * the 2nd char in the pair).
+ *
+ * @returns true if it is.
+ * @returns false if it isn't.
+ * @param wc The character to investigate.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(bool) RTUtf16IsLowSurrogate(RTUTF16 wc)
+{
+ return wc >= 0xdc00 && wc <= 0xdfff;
+}
+
+
+/**
+ * Checks if the two UTF-16 chars form a valid surrogate pair.
+ *
+ * @returns true if they do.
+ * @returns false if they doesn't.
+ * @param wcHigh The high (1st) character.
+ * @param wcLow The low (2nd) character.
+ */
+DECLINLINE(bool) RTUtf16IsSurrogatePair(RTUTF16 wcHigh, RTUTF16 wcLow)
+{
+ return RTUtf16IsHighSurrogate(wcHigh)
+ && RTUtf16IsLowSurrogate(wcLow);
+}
+
+/**
+ * Formats a buffer stream as hex bytes.
+ *
+ * The default is no separating spaces or line breaks or anything.
+ *
+ * @returns IPRT status code.
+ * @retval VERR_INVALID_POINTER if any of the pointers are wrong.
+ * @retval VERR_BUFFER_OVERFLOW if the buffer is insufficent to hold the bytes.
+ *
+ * @param pwszBuf Output string buffer.
+ * @param cwcBuf The size of the output buffer in RTUTF16 units.
+ * @param pv Pointer to the bytes to stringify.
+ * @param cb The number of bytes to stringify.
+ * @param fFlags Combination of RTSTRPRINTHEXBYTES_F_XXX values.
+ * @sa RTStrPrintHexBytes.
+ */
+RTDECL(int) RTUtf16PrintHexBytes(PRTUTF16 pwszBuf, size_t cwcBuf, void const *pv, size_t cb, uint32_t fFlags);
+
+/**
+ * String printf producing UTF-16 output.
+ *
+ * @returns On success, positive count of formatted RTUTF16 units excluding the
+ * terminator. On buffer overflow, negative number giving the required
+ * buffer size (including terminator) in RTUTF16 units.
+ *
+ * @param pwszBuffer Output buffer.
+ * @param cwcBuffer Size of the output buffer in RTUTF16 units.
+ * @param pszFormat Pointer to the format string, @see pg_rt_str_format.
+ * @param args The format argument.
+ *
+ * @note This is similar to RTStrPrintf2V (not RTStrPrintfV)!
+ */
+RTDECL(ssize_t) RTUtf16PrintfV(PRTUTF16 pwszBuffer, size_t cwcBuffer, const char *pszFormat, va_list args) RT_IPRT_FORMAT_ATTR(3, 0);
+
+/**
+ * String printf producing UTF-16 output.
+ *
+ * @returns On success, positive count of formatted RTUTF16 units excluding the
+ * terminator. On buffer overflow, negative number giving the required
+ * buffer size (including terminator) in RTUTF16 units.
+ *
+ * @param pwszBuffer Output buffer.
+ * @param cwcBuffer Size of the output buffer in RTUTF16 units.
+ * @param pszFormat Pointer to the format string, @see pg_rt_str_format.
+ * @param ... The format argument.
+ *
+ * @note This is similar to RTStrPrintf2 (not RTStrPrintf)!
+ */
+RTDECL(ssize_t) RTUtf16Printf(PRTUTF16 pwszBuffer, size_t cwcBuffer, const char *pszFormat, ...) RT_IPRT_FORMAT_ATTR(3, 4);
+
+/**
+ * String printf producing UTF-16 output with custom formatting.
+ *
+ * @returns On success, positive count of formatted RTUTF16 units excluding the
+ * terminator. On buffer overflow, negative number giving the required
+ * buffer size (including terminator) in RTUTF16 units.
+ *
+ * @param pfnFormat Pointer to handler function for the custom formats.
+ * @param pvArg Argument to the pfnFormat function.
+ * @param pwszBuffer Output buffer.
+ * @param cwcBuffer Size of the output buffer in RTUTF16 units.
+ * @param pszFormat Pointer to the format string, @see pg_rt_str_format.
+ * @param args The format argument.
+ *
+ * @note This is similar to RTStrPrintf2ExV (not RTStrPrintfExV)!
+ */
+RTDECL(ssize_t) RTUtf16PrintfExV(PFNSTRFORMAT pfnFormat, void *pvArg, PRTUTF16 pwszBuffer, size_t cwcBuffer,
+ const char *pszFormat, va_list args) RT_IPRT_FORMAT_ATTR(5, 0);
+
+/**
+ * String printf producing UTF-16 output with custom formatting.
+ *
+ * @returns On success, positive count of formatted RTUTF16 units excluding the
+ * terminator. On buffer overflow, negative number giving the required
+ * buffer size (including terminator) in RTUTF16 units.
+ *
+ * @param pfnFormat Pointer to handler function for the custom formats.
+ * @param pvArg Argument to the pfnFormat function.
+ * @param pwszBuffer Output buffer.
+ * @param cwcBuffer Size of the output buffer in RTUTF16 units.
+ * @param pszFormat Pointer to the format string, @see pg_rt_str_format.
+ * @param ... The format argument.
+ *
+ * @note This is similar to RTStrPrintf2Ex (not RTStrPrintfEx)!
+ */
+RTDECL(ssize_t) RTUtf16PrintfEx(PFNSTRFORMAT pfnFormat, void *pvArg, PRTUTF16 pwszBuffer, size_t cwcBuffer,
+ const char *pszFormat, ...) RT_IPRT_FORMAT_ATTR(5, 6);
+
+/** @} */
+RT_C_DECLS_END
+
+#endif /* !IPRT_INCLUDED_utf16_h */
+