Adding upstream version 4:7.4.7.upstream/4%7.4.7upstream

Signed-off-by: Daniel Baumann <daniel.baumann@progress-linux.org>

64 files changed, 7625 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/include/unotools/VersionConfig.hxx b/include/unotools/VersionConfig.hxx
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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/.
+ *
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <officecfg/Setup.hxx>
+#include <unotools/configmgr.hxx>
+#include <o3tl/string_view.hxx>
+
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/IllegalArgumentException.hpp>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+/** This method is called when there's a need to determine if the
+ * current version of LibreOffice has been upgraded to a newer one.
+
+    @param aUpdateVersion This variable is used to determine if
+    LibreOffice's previous version should be updated.
+ */
+static bool isProductVersionUpgraded(bool aUpdateVersion)
+{
+    OUString sSetupVersion = utl::ConfigManager::getProductVersion();
+    sal_Int32 iCurrent = o3tl::toInt32(o3tl::getToken(sSetupVersion, 0, '.')) * 10
+                         + o3tl::toInt32(o3tl::getToken(sSetupVersion, 1, '.'));
+    OUString sLastVersion = officecfg::Setup::Product::ooSetupLastVersion::get().value_or("0.0");
+    sal_Int32 iLast = o3tl::toInt32(o3tl::getToken(sLastVersion, 0, '.')) * 10
+                      + o3tl::toInt32(o3tl::getToken(sLastVersion, 1, '.'));
+    if (iCurrent > iLast)
+    {
+        if (aUpdateVersion)
+        { //update lastversion
+            try
+            {
+                std::shared_ptr<comphelper::ConfigurationChanges> batch(
+                    comphelper::ConfigurationChanges::create());
+                officecfg::Setup::Product::ooSetupLastVersion::set(sSetupVersion, batch);
+                batch->commit();
+            }
+            catch (css::lang::IllegalArgumentException&)
+            { //If the value was readOnly.
+                SAL_WARN("desktop.updater", "Updating property ooSetupLastVersion to version "
+                                                << sSetupVersion
+                                                << " failed (read-only property?)");
+            }
+        }
+        return true;
+    }
+    return false;
+}
+}
diff --git a/include/unotools/ZipPackageHelper.hxx b/include/unotools/ZipPackageHelper.hxx
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+++ b/include/unotools/ZipPackageHelper.hxx
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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_UNOTOOLS_ZIPPACKAGEHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_ZIPPACKAGEHELPER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.hpp>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::container { class XHierarchicalNameAccess; }
+namespace com::sun::star::lang { class XSingleServiceFactory; }
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+
+namespace utl {
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC ZipPackageHelper
+{
+public:
+    ZipPackageHelper( const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >& rxContext,
+        const OUString& sPackageURL);
+
+    void savePackage();
+
+    /// @throws css::uno::Exception
+    void addFile( css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > const & xRootFolder,
+                  const OUString& rSourceFile );
+
+    /// @throws css::uno::Exception
+    css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > addFolder( css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > const & xRootFolder,
+                                                           const OUString& rName );
+
+    void addFolderWithContent( css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > const & xRootFolder,
+                               const OUString& rDirURL );
+
+    css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >& getRootFolder();
+
+private:
+    css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > mxContext;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess > mxHNameAccess;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::lang::XSingleServiceFactory > mxFactory;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > mxRootFolder;
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/accessiblerelationsethelper.hxx b/include/unotools/accessiblerelationsethelper.hxx
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+++ b/include/unotools/accessiblerelationsethelper.hxx
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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_UNOTOOLS_ACCESSIBLERELATIONSETHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_ACCESSIBLERELATIONSETHELPER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+#include <com/sun/star/accessibility/XAccessibleRelationSet.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+#include <mutex>
+#include <vector>
+
+//= XAccessibleRelationSet helper classes
+
+//... namespace utl .......................................................
+namespace utl
+{
+/** @descr
+        This base class provides an implementation of the
+        <code>AccessibleRelationSet</code> service.
+*/
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC AccessibleRelationSetHelper final
+    : public cppu::WeakImplHelper<css::accessibility::XAccessibleRelationSet>
+{
+public:
+    //=====  internal  ========================================================
+    AccessibleRelationSetHelper();
+    AccessibleRelationSetHelper(const AccessibleRelationSetHelper& rHelper);
+
+private:
+    virtual ~AccessibleRelationSetHelper() override;
+
+public:
+    //=====  XAccessibleRelationSet  ==========================================
+
+    /** Returns the number of relations in this relation set.
+
+        @return
+            Returns the number of relations or zero if there are none.
+    */
+    virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL getRelationCount() override;
+
+    /** Returns the relation of this relation set that is specified by
+        the given index.
+
+        @param nIndex
+            This index specifies the relatio to return.
+
+        @return
+            For a valid index, i.e. inside the range 0 to the number of
+            relations minus one, the returned value is the requested
+            relation.  If the index is invalid then the returned relation
+            has the type INVALID.
+
+    */
+    virtual css::accessibility::AccessibleRelation SAL_CALL getRelation(sal_Int32 nIndex) override;
+
+    /** Tests whether the relation set contains a relation matching the
+        specified key.
+
+        @param aRelationType
+            The type of relation to look for in this set of relations.  This
+            has to be one of the constants of
+            AccessibleRelationType.
+
+        @return
+            Returns <TRUE/> if there is a (at least one) relation of the
+            given type and <FALSE/> if there is no such relation in the set.
+    */
+    virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL containsRelation(sal_Int16 aRelationType) override;
+
+    /** Retrieve and return the relation with the given relation type.
+
+        @param aRelationType
+            The type of the relation to return.  This has to be one of the
+            constants of AccessibleRelationType.
+
+        @return
+            If a relation with the given type could be found than (a copy
+            of) this relation is returned.  Otherwise a relation with the
+            type INVALID is returned.
+    */
+    virtual css::accessibility::AccessibleRelation SAL_CALL
+    getRelationByType(sal_Int16 aRelationType) override;
+
+    /// @throws uno::RuntimeException
+    void AddRelation(const css::accessibility::AccessibleRelation& rRelation);
+
+    //=====  XTypeProvider  ===================================================
+
+    /** Returns a sequence of all supported interfaces.
+    */
+    virtual css::uno::Sequence<css::uno::Type> SAL_CALL getTypes() override;
+
+    /** Returns an implementation id.
+    */
+    virtual css::uno::Sequence<sal_Int8> SAL_CALL getImplementationId() override;
+
+private:
+    /// Mutex guarding this object.
+    std::mutex maMutex;
+    /// The implementation of this helper interface.
+    std::vector<css::accessibility::AccessibleRelation> maRelations;
+};
+}
+//... namespace utl .......................................................
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/accessiblestatesethelper.hxx b/include/unotools/accessiblestatesethelper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b1e5644f1
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+++ b/include/unotools/accessiblestatesethelper.hxx
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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_UNOTOOLS_ACCESSIBLESTATESETHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_ACCESSIBLESTATESETHELPER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+#include <com/sun/star/accessibility/XAccessibleStateSet.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+#include <mutex>
+
+//= XAccessibleStateSet helper classes
+
+//... namespace utl .......................................................
+namespace utl
+{
+/** @descr
+        This base class provides an implementation of the
+        <code>AccessibleStateSet</code> service.
+*/
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC AccessibleStateSetHelper final
+    : public cppu::WeakImplHelper<css::accessibility::XAccessibleStateSet>
+{
+public:
+    //=====  internal  ========================================================
+
+    AccessibleStateSetHelper();
+    /** constructs an object with some states initially set
+
+        <p>This ctor is compatible with
+        <method scope="comphelper">OAccessibleImplementationAccess::implGetForeignControlledStates</method></p>
+
+        @param _nInitialStates
+            is a bit mask. Every bit 2^n means that the state number n (as got from the
+            AccessibleStateType constants) should be set initially.
+    */
+    AccessibleStateSetHelper(const sal_Int64 _nInitialStates);
+
+    AccessibleStateSetHelper(const AccessibleStateSetHelper& rHelper);
+
+private:
+    virtual ~AccessibleStateSetHelper() override;
+
+public:
+    //=====  XAccessibleStateSet  ==============================================
+
+    /** Checks whether the current state set is empty.
+
+        @return
+            Returns <TRUE/> if there is no state in this state set and
+            <FALSE/> if there is at least one state set in it.
+    */
+    virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL isEmpty() override;
+
+    /** Checks if the given state is a member of the state set of this
+        object.
+
+        @param aState
+            The state for which to check membership.  This has to be one of
+            the constants of AccessibleStateType.
+
+        @return
+            Returns <TRUE/> if the given state is a member of this object's
+            state set and <FALSE/> otherwise.
+    */
+    virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL contains(sal_Int16 aState) override;
+
+    /** Checks if all of the given states are in this object's state
+        set.
+
+        @param aStateSet
+            This sequence of states is interpreted as set and every of its
+            members, duplicates are ignored, is checked for membership in
+            this object's state set.  Each state has to be one of the
+            constants of AccessibleStateType.
+
+        @return
+            Returns <TRUE/> if all states of the given state set are members
+            of this object's state set.  <FALSE/> is returned if at least
+            one of the states in the given state is not a member of this
+            object's state set.
+    */
+    virtual sal_Bool SAL_CALL containsAll(const css::uno::Sequence<sal_Int16>& rStateSet) override;
+
+    /** Returns a sequence of all states.
+    */
+    virtual css::uno::Sequence<sal_Int16> SAL_CALL getStates() override;
+
+    /** Adds a state to the set.
+
+        @throws css::uno::RuntimeException
+    */
+    void AddState(sal_Int16 aState);
+
+    /** Removes a state from the set if the set contains the state, otherwise nothing is done.
+
+        @throws css::uno::RuntimeException
+    */
+    void RemoveState(sal_Int16 aState);
+
+    //=====  XTypeProvider  ===================================================
+
+    /** Returns a sequence of all supported interfaces.
+    */
+    virtual css::uno::Sequence<css::uno::Type> SAL_CALL getTypes() override;
+
+    /** Returns an implementation id.
+    */
+    virtual css::uno::Sequence<sal_Int8> SAL_CALL getImplementationId() override;
+
+private:
+    /// Mutex guarding this object.
+    std::mutex maMutex;
+    /// The implementation of this helper interface.
+    sal_uInt64 maStates;
+};
+}
+//... namespace utl .......................................................
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/bootstrap.hxx b/include/unotools/bootstrap.hxx
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+++ b/include/unotools/bootstrap.hxx
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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_UNOTOOLS_BOOTSTRAP_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_BOOTSTRAP_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+    /** provides configuration information needed for application startup.
+
+        This class handles the startup information for the office application.
+           It encapsulates knowledge of how to retrieve such information and how
+           to diagnose failures to retrieve required data.
+
+    */
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC Bootstrap
+    {
+    // the static interface
+    public: // some common information items
+
+        /// retrieve the product key; defaults to executable name (without extension)
+        static OUString getProductKey();
+
+        /// retrieve the product key; uses the given default, if not found
+        static OUString getProductKey(OUString const& _sDefault);
+
+        /// retrieve the BUILDID information item; uses the given default, if not found
+        static OUString getBuildIdData(OUString const& _sDefault);
+
+        /// reload cached data
+        static void reloadData();
+
+    public: // retrieve path information about the installation location
+        enum PathStatus
+        {
+            PATH_EXISTS,  // Success: Found a path to an existing file or directory
+            PATH_VALID,   // Found a valid path, but the file or directory does not exist
+            DATA_INVALID, // Retrieved a string for this path, that is not a valid file url or system path
+            DATA_MISSING, // Could not retrieve any data for this path
+            DATA_UNKNOWN  // No attempt to retrieve data for this path was made
+        };
+
+        /// get a file URL to the common base installation [${insturl}]
+        static PathStatus locateBaseInstallation(OUString& _rURL);
+
+        /// get a file URL to the user installation [${userurl}]
+        static PathStatus locateUserInstallation(OUString& _rURL);
+
+        /// get a file URL to the user data directory [default is ${userurl}/user]
+        static PathStatus locateUserData(OUString& _rURL);
+
+    // the next two items are mainly supported for diagnostic purposes. both items may be unused
+        /// get a file URL to the bootstrap INI file used [e.g. ${insturl}/program/bootraprc]
+        static PathStatus locateBootstrapFile(OUString& _rURL);
+        /// get a file URL to the version locator INI file used [e.g. ${SYSUSERCONFIG}/sversion.ini]
+        static PathStatus locateVersionFile(OUString& _rURL);
+
+    public: // evaluate the validity of the installation
+        /// high-level status of bootstrap success
+        enum Status
+        {
+            DATA_OK,              /// user-dir and share-dir do exist, product key found or can be defaulted to exe-name
+            MISSING_USER_INSTALL, /// ${userurl} does not exist; or version-file cannot be found or is invalid
+            INVALID_USER_INSTALL, /// can locate ${userurl}, but user-dir is missing
+            INVALID_BASE_INSTALL  /// other failure: e.g. cannot locate share-dir; bootstraprc missing or invalid; no product key
+        };
+
+        /// error code for detailed diagnostics of bootstrap failures
+        enum FailureCode
+        {
+            NO_FAILURE,                   /// bootstrap was successful
+            MISSING_INSTALL_DIRECTORY,    /// the shared installation directory could not be located
+            MISSING_BOOTSTRAP_FILE,       /// the bootstrap INI file could not be found or read
+            MISSING_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_ENTRY, /// the bootstrap INI is missing a required entry
+            INVALID_BOOTSTRAP_FILE_ENTRY, /// the bootstrap INI contains invalid data
+            MISSING_VERSION_FILE,         /// the version locator INI file could not be found or read
+            MISSING_VERSION_FILE_ENTRY,   /// the version locator INI has no entry for this version
+            INVALID_VERSION_FILE_ENTRY,   /// the version locator INI entry is not a valid directory URL
+            MISSING_USER_DIRECTORY,       /// the user installation directory does not exist
+            INVALID_BOOTSTRAP_DATA        /// some bootstrap data was invalid in unexpected ways
+        };
+
+        /** Evaluates the status of the installation and returns a diagnostic
+            message and error code corresponding to this status
+        */
+        static Status checkBootstrapStatus(OUString& _rDiagnosticMessage, FailureCode& _rErrCode);
+
+    public:
+        /// get the working directory of the process
+        static bool getProcessWorkingDir(OUString &rUrl);
+
+    public:
+        // singleton impl-class
+        class UNOTOOLS_DLLPRIVATE Impl;
+        static const Impl& data(); // the data related to the bootstrap.ini file
+    };
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/calendarwrapper.hxx b/include/unotools/calendarwrapper.hxx
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/include/unotools/calendarwrapper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,124 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CALENDARWRAPPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CALENDARWRAPPER_HXX
+
+#include <tools/datetime.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/Calendar2.hpp>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { class XCalendar4; }
+namespace com::sun::star::lang { struct Locale; }
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC CalendarWrapper
+{
+    css::uno::Reference< css::i18n::XCalendar4 >   xC;
+
+    const DateTime aEpochStart;        // 1Jan1970
+
+public:
+                                CalendarWrapper(
+                                    const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > & rxContext
+                                    );
+                                ~CalendarWrapper();
+
+    // wrapper implementations of XCalendar
+
+    /** Load the default calendar of a locale.
+
+        This adds a bool bTimeZoneUTC parameter which is not part of the UNO API to
+        facilitate handling of non time zone aware data.
+
+        @param  bTimeZoneUTC
+                Default <TRUE/>. If <FALSE/>, the system's timezone is assigned
+                to the calendar, including all DST quirks like not existing
+                times on DST transition dates when switching to/from DST. As
+                current implementations and number parser/formatter don't store
+                or convert or calculate with time zones it is safer to use UTC,
+                which is not DST afflicted, otherwise surprises are lurking
+                (for example tdf#92503).
+     */
+    void loadDefaultCalendar( const css::lang::Locale& rLocale, bool bTimeZoneUTC = true );
+    /// This adds a bTimeZoneUTC parameter which is not part of the API.
+    void loadCalendar( const OUString& rUniqueID, const css::lang::Locale& rLocale, bool bTimeZoneUTC = true );
+
+    /* XXX NOTE: the time zone taking UNO API functions are not implemented as
+     * wrapper interface as they are not necessary/used so far. These are:
+    void loadDefaultCalendarTZ( const css::lang::Locale& rLocale, const OUString& rTimeZone );
+    void loadCalendarTZ( const OUString& rUniqueID, const css::lang::Locale& rLocale, const OUString& rTimeZone );
+     */
+
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString > getAllCalendars( const css::lang::Locale& rLocale ) const;
+    OUString getUniqueID() const;
+    /// set UTC date/time
+    void setDateTime( double fTimeInDays );
+    /// get UTC date/time
+    double getDateTime() const;
+
+    // For local setDateTime() and getDateTime() see further down at wrapper
+    // implementations of XCalendar4.
+
+    // wrapper implementations of XCalendar
+
+    void setValue( sal_Int16 nFieldIndex, sal_Int16 nValue );
+    bool isValid() const;
+    sal_Int16 getValue( sal_Int16 nFieldIndex ) const;
+    sal_Int16 getFirstDayOfWeek() const;
+    sal_Int16 getNumberOfMonthsInYear() const;
+    sal_Int16 getNumberOfDaysInWeek() const;
+    OUString getDisplayName( sal_Int16 nCalendarDisplayIndex, sal_Int16 nIdx, sal_Int16 nNameType ) const;
+
+    // wrapper implementations of XExtendedCalendar
+
+    OUString getDisplayString( sal_Int32 nCalendarDisplayCode, sal_Int16 nNativeNumberMode ) const;
+
+    // wrapper implementations of XCalendar3
+
+    css::i18n::Calendar2 getLoadedCalendar() const;
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::CalendarItem2 > getDays() const;
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::CalendarItem2 > getMonths() const;
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::CalendarItem2 > getGenitiveMonths() const;
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::CalendarItem2 > getPartitiveMonths() const;
+
+    // wrapper implementations of XCalendar4
+
+    /// set local date/time
+    void setLocalDateTime( double fTimeInDays );
+    /// get local date/time
+    double getLocalDateTime() const;
+
+    // convenience methods
+
+    /// get epoch start (should be 01Jan1970)
+    const DateTime&     getEpochStart() const
+                                    { return aEpochStart; }
+
+    /// set a local (!) Gregorian DateTime
+    void                setGregorianDateTime( const DateTime& rDateTime )
+                                    { setLocalDateTime( rDateTime - aEpochStart ); }
+
+};
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/caserotate.hxx b/include/unotools/caserotate.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6e61785be
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/caserotate.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* -*- 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/.
+ */
+#ifndef INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CASEROTATE_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CASEROTATE_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+enum class TransliterationFlags;
+
+//TODO Use XCharacterClassification::getStringType to determine the current
+//(possibly mixed) case type and rotate to the next one
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC RotateTransliteration
+{
+private:
+    int nF3ShiftCounter;
+
+public:
+    RotateTransliteration()
+        : nF3ShiftCounter(0)
+    {
+    }
+    TransliterationFlags getNextMode();
+};
+
+#endif
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/charclass.hxx b/include/unotools/charclass.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c76c7ae35
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/charclass.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,181 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CHARCLASS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CHARCLASS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <i18nlangtag/languagetag.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/DirectionProperty.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/KCharacterType.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/ParseResult.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/UnicodeScript.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { class XCharacterClassification; }
+
+const sal_Int32 nCharClassAlphaType =
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::UPPER |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::LOWER |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::TITLE_CASE;
+
+const sal_Int32 nCharClassAlphaTypeMask =
+    nCharClassAlphaType |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::PRINTABLE |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::BASE_FORM;
+
+const sal_Int32 nCharClassLetterType =
+    nCharClassAlphaType |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::LETTER;
+
+const sal_Int32 nCharClassLetterTypeMask =
+    nCharClassAlphaTypeMask |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::LETTER;
+
+const sal_Int32 nCharClassNumericType =
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::DIGIT;
+
+const sal_Int32 nCharClassNumericTypeMask =
+    nCharClassNumericType |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::PRINTABLE |
+    css::i18n::KCharacterType::BASE_FORM;
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC CharClass
+{
+    LanguageTag                 maLanguageTag;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::i18n::XCharacterClassification >    xCC;
+
+    CharClass(const CharClass&) = delete;
+    CharClass& operator=(const CharClass&) = delete;
+
+public:
+    /// Preferred ctor with service manager specified
+    CharClass(
+        const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > & rxContext,
+        LanguageTag aLanguageTag );
+
+    /// Deprecated ctor, tries to get a process service manager or to load the
+    /// library directly.
+    CharClass( LanguageTag aLanguageTag );
+
+    ~CharClass();
+
+    /// get current Locale
+    const LanguageTag& getLanguageTag() const;
+
+    /// isdigit() on ascii values of entire string
+    static bool isAsciiNumeric( std::u16string_view rStr );
+
+    /// isalpha() on ascii values of entire string
+    static bool isAsciiAlpha( std::u16string_view rStr );
+
+    /// whether type is pure numeric or not, e.g. return of getStringType
+    static bool isNumericType( sal_Int32 nType )
+    {
+        return ((nType & nCharClassNumericType) != 0) &&
+            ((nType & ~nCharClassNumericTypeMask) == 0);
+    }
+
+    /// whether type is pure alphanumeric or not, e.g. return of getStringType
+    static bool isAlphaNumericType( sal_Int32 nType )
+    {
+        return ((nType & (nCharClassAlphaType |
+            nCharClassNumericType)) != 0) &&
+            ((nType & ~(nCharClassAlphaTypeMask |
+            nCharClassNumericTypeMask)) == 0);
+    }
+
+    /// whether type is pure letter or not, e.g. return of getStringType
+    static bool isLetterType( sal_Int32 nType )
+    {
+        return ((nType & nCharClassLetterType) != 0) &&
+            ((nType & ~nCharClassLetterTypeMask) == 0);
+    }
+
+    /// whether type is pure letternumeric or not, e.g. return of getStringType
+    static bool isLetterNumericType( sal_Int32 nType )
+    {
+        return ((nType & (nCharClassLetterType |
+            nCharClassNumericType)) != 0) &&
+            ((nType & ~(nCharClassLetterTypeMask |
+            nCharClassNumericTypeMask)) == 0);
+    }
+
+    // Wrapper implementations of class CharacterClassification
+
+    OUString uppercase( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos, sal_Int32 nCount ) const;
+    OUString lowercase( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos, sal_Int32 nCount ) const;
+    OUString titlecase( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos, sal_Int32 nCount ) const;
+
+    OUString uppercase( const OUString& _rStr ) const
+    {
+        return uppercase(_rStr, 0, _rStr.getLength());
+    }
+    OUString lowercase( const OUString& _rStr ) const
+    {
+        return lowercase(_rStr, 0, _rStr.getLength());
+    }
+    OUString titlecase( const OUString& _rStr ) const
+    {
+        return titlecase(_rStr, 0, _rStr.getLength());
+    }
+
+    sal_Int16 getType( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    css::i18n::DirectionProperty getCharacterDirection( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    css::i18n::UnicodeScript getScript( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    sal_Int32 getCharacterType( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    sal_Int32 getStringType( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos, sal_Int32 nCount ) const;
+
+    css::i18n::ParseResult parseAnyToken(
+                                    const OUString& rStr,
+                                    sal_Int32 nPos,
+                                    sal_Int32 nStartCharFlags,
+                                    const OUString& userDefinedCharactersStart,
+                                    sal_Int32 nContCharFlags,
+                                    const OUString& userDefinedCharactersCont ) const;
+
+    css::i18n::ParseResult parsePredefinedToken(
+                                    sal_Int32 nTokenType,
+                                    const OUString& rStr,
+                                    sal_Int32 nPos,
+                                    sal_Int32 nStartCharFlags,
+                                    const OUString& userDefinedCharactersStart,
+                                    sal_Int32 nContCharFlags,
+                                    const OUString& userDefinedCharactersCont ) const;
+
+    // Functionality of class International methods
+
+    bool isAlpha( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    bool isLetter( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    bool isDigit( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    bool isAlphaNumeric( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    bool isLetterNumeric( const OUString& rStr, sal_Int32 nPos ) const;
+    bool isLetter( const OUString& rStr ) const;
+    bool isNumeric( const OUString& rStr ) const;
+    bool isLetterNumeric( const OUString& rStr ) const;
+
+private:
+
+    const css::lang::Locale &  getMyLocale() const;
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CHARCLASS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/closeveto.hxx b/include/unotools/closeveto.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bcc56766f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/closeveto.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,55 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CLOSEVETO_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CLOSEVETO_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XInterface; }
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    //= CloseVeto
+    struct CloseVeto_Data;
+    /** will add a XCloseListener to a given component, and veto its closing as long as the <code>CloseVeto</code>
+        instance is alive.
+
+        If closing has been requested and vetoed while the <code>CloseVeto</code> instance is alive, and the ownership
+        went to the <code>CloseVeto</code> instance, then it will close the component in its dtor.
+    */
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC CloseVeto
+    {
+    public:
+        CloseVeto( const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >& i_closeable,
+                bool bHasOwnership = false);
+        ~CloseVeto();
+
+    private:
+        std::unique_ptr< CloseVeto_Data >   m_xData;
+    };
+
+} // namespace dbaui
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CLOSEVETO_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/cmdoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/cmdoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bb3414f8f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/cmdoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CMDOPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CMDOPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno
+{
+template <typename> class Reference;
+}
+
+namespace com::sun::star::frame
+{
+class XFrame;
+}
+namespace osl
+{
+class Mutex;
+}
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @descr          The method GetList() returns a list of property values.
+                    Use follow defines to separate values by names.
+**-***********************************************************************************************************/
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          forward declaration to our private date container implementation
+    @descr          We use these class as internal member to support small memory requirements.
+                    You can create the container if it is necessary. The class which use these mechanism
+                    is faster and smaller then a complete implementation!
+**-***********************************************************************************************************/
+
+class SvtCommandOptions_Impl;
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          collect information about dynamic menus
+    @descr          Make it possible to configure dynamic menu structures of menus like "new" or "wizard".
+    @devstatus      ready to use
+**-***********************************************************************************************************/
+
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtCommandOptions final : public utl::detail::Options
+{
+    friend class SvtCommandOptions_Impl;
+
+public:
+    enum CmdOption
+    {
+        CMDOPTION_DISABLED,
+        CMDOPTION_NONE
+    };
+
+    SvtCommandOptions();
+    virtual ~SvtCommandOptions() override;
+
+    /*-****************************************************************************************************
+        @short      return complete specified list
+        @descr      Call it to get all entries of an dynamic menu.
+                    We return a list of all nodes with its names and properties.
+        @param      "eOption" select the list to retrieve.
+        @return     A list of command strings is returned.
+
+        @onerror    We return an empty list.
+    **-***************************************************************************************************/
+
+    bool HasEntries(CmdOption eOption) const;
+
+    /*-****************************************************************************************************
+        @short      Lookup if a command URL is inside a given list
+        @descr      Lookup if a command URL is inside a given lst
+        @param      "eOption" select right command list
+        @param      "aCommandURL" a command URL that is used for the look up
+        @return     "sal_True" if the command is inside the list otherwise "sal_False"
+    **-***************************************************************************************************/
+
+    bool Lookup(CmdOption eOption, const OUString& aCommandURL) const;
+
+    /*-****************************************************************************************************
+        @short      register an office frame, which must update its dispatches if
+                    the underlying configuration was changed.
+
+        @descr      To avoid using of "dead" frame objects or implementing
+                    deregistration mechanism too, we use weak references to
+                    the given frames.
+
+        @param      "xFrame"            points to the frame, which wishes to be
+                                        notified, if configuration was changed.
+    **-***************************************************************************************************/
+
+    void EstablishFrameCallback(const css::uno::Reference<css::frame::XFrame>& xFrame);
+
+private:
+    std::shared_ptr<SvtCommandOptions_Impl> m_pImpl;
+
+}; // class SvtCmdOptions
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CMDOPTIONS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/collatorwrapper.hxx b/include/unotools/collatorwrapper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..595d9ccf4
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/collatorwrapper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_COLLATORWRAPPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_COLLATORWRAPPER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno {
+        class XComponentContext;
+}
+
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { class XCollator; }
+namespace com::sun::star::lang { struct Locale; }
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC CollatorWrapper
+{
+    private:
+        css::uno::Reference< css::i18n::XCollator >        mxInternationalCollator;
+
+    public:
+
+        CollatorWrapper (
+                const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > &rxContext);
+
+           sal_Int32
+        compareString (
+                const OUString& s1, const OUString& s2) const;
+
+        css::uno::Sequence< OUString >
+        listCollatorAlgorithms (
+                const css::lang::Locale& rLocale) const;
+
+        sal_Int32
+        loadDefaultCollator (
+                const css::lang::Locale& rLocale, sal_Int32 nOption);
+
+        void
+        loadCollatorAlgorithm (
+                const OUString& rAlgorithm,
+                const css::lang::Locale& rLocale, sal_Int32 nOption);
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_COLLATORWRAPPER_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/compatibility.hxx b/include/unotools/compatibility.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b929771b5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/compatibility.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,200 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_COMPATIBILITY_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_COMPATIBILITY_HXX
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Any.hxx>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace osl { class Mutex; }
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @descr  Struct to hold information about one compatibility entry
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+class SvtCompatibilityEntry
+{
+    public:
+        /*-************************************************************************************************************
+            @descr          The method SvtCompatibilityOptions::GetList() returns a list of property values.
+                            Use follow enum class to separate values by names.
+                            Sync it with sPropertyName in SvtCompatibilityEntry::getName()
+        *//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+        enum class Index
+        {
+            /* Should be in the start. Do not remove it. */
+            Name,
+            Module,
+
+            /* Editable list of compatibility options. */
+            UsePrtMetrics,
+            AddSpacing,
+            AddSpacingAtPages,
+            UseOurTabStops,
+            NoExtLeading,
+            UseLineSpacing,
+            AddTableSpacing,
+            UseObjectPositioning,
+            UseOurTextWrapping,
+            ConsiderWrappingStyle,
+            ExpandWordSpace,
+            ProtectForm,
+            MsWordTrailingBlanks,
+            SubtractFlysAnchoredAtFlys,
+            EmptyDbFieldHidesPara,
+            /// special entry: optcomp.cxx converts the other values to
+            /// integers but not this one because it doesn't have its own
+            /// checkbox, so keep it at the end!
+            AddTableLineSpacing,
+
+            /* Should be at the end. Do not remove it. */
+            INVALID
+        };
+
+        SvtCompatibilityEntry();
+
+        static OUString getName( const Index rIdx );
+
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral USER_ENTRY_NAME = u"_user";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral DEFAULT_ENTRY_NAME = u"_default";
+
+        static size_t getElementCount()
+        {
+            return static_cast<size_t>(Index::INVALID);
+        }
+
+        css::uno::Any getValue( const Index rIdx ) const
+        {
+            if ( static_cast<size_t>(rIdx) < getElementCount() )
+            {
+                return m_aPropertyValue[ static_cast<int>(rIdx) ];
+            } else
+            {
+                /* Wrong index. */
+                assert( false );
+                return css::uno::Any();
+            }
+        }
+
+        template<typename T>
+        T getValue( const Index rIdx ) const
+        {
+            T aValue = T();
+
+            if ( static_cast<size_t>(rIdx) < getElementCount() )
+            {
+                m_aPropertyValue[ static_cast<int>(rIdx) ] >>= aValue;
+            } else
+            {
+                /* Wrong index. */
+                assert( false );
+            }
+
+            return aValue;
+        }
+
+        void setValue( const Index rIdx, css::uno::Any const & rValue )
+        {
+            if ( static_cast<size_t>(rIdx) < getElementCount() )
+            {
+                m_aPropertyValue[ static_cast<int>(rIdx) ] = rValue;
+            } else
+            {
+                /* Wrong index. */
+                assert( false );
+            }
+        }
+
+        template<typename T>
+        void setValue( const Index rIdx, T rValue )
+        {
+            setValue(rIdx, css::uno::Any(rValue));
+        }
+
+    private:
+        std::vector<css::uno::Any> m_aPropertyValue;
+};
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          forward declaration to our private date container implementation
+    @descr          We use these class as internal member to support small memory requirements.
+                    You can create the container if it is necessary. The class which use these mechanism
+                    is faster and smaller then a complete implementation!
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+class SvtCompatibilityOptions_Impl;
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          collect information about dynamic menus
+    @descr          Make it possible to configure dynamic menu structures of menus like "new" or "wizard".
+    @devstatus      ready to use
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtCompatibilityOptions final : public utl::detail::Options
+{
+    public:
+        SvtCompatibilityOptions();
+        virtual ~SvtCompatibilityOptions() override;
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      append a new item
+            @descr
+
+            @seealso    method Clear()
+
+            @param      "aItem"             SvtCompatibilityEntry
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+        void AppendItem( const SvtCompatibilityEntry& aItem );
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      clear complete specified list
+            @descr      Call this methods to clear the whole list.
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+        void Clear();
+
+        void SetDefault( SvtCompatibilityEntry::Index rIdx, bool rValue );
+        bool GetDefault( SvtCompatibilityEntry::Index rIdx ) const;
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      return complete specified list
+            @descr      Call it to get all entries of compatibility options.
+                        We return a list of all nodes with its names and properties.
+            @return     A list of compatibility options is returned.
+
+            @onerror    We return an empty list.
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+        std::vector< SvtCompatibilityEntry > GetList() const;
+
+    private:
+        std::shared_ptr<SvtCompatibilityOptions_Impl> m_pImpl;
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      return a reference to a static mutex
+            @descr      These class is partially threadsafe (for de-/initialization only).
+                        All access methods aren't safe!
+                        We create a static mutex only for one ime and use at different times.
+            @return     A reference to a static mutex member.
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+        UNOTOOLS_DLLPRIVATE static osl::Mutex& GetOwnStaticMutex();
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_COMPATIBILITY_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/configitem.hxx b/include/unotools/configitem.hxx
new file mode 100644
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+++ b/include/unotools/configitem.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,215 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGITEM_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGITEM_HXX
+
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+#include <o3tl/typed_flags_set.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star {
+    namespace uno{
+        class Any;
+    }
+    namespace beans{
+        struct PropertyValue;
+    }
+    namespace container{
+        class XHierarchicalNameAccess;
+    }
+    namespace util{
+        class XChangesListener;
+    }
+}
+
+enum class ConfigItemMode
+{
+    NONE               = 0x00,
+    AllLocales         = 0x02,
+    ReleaseTree        = 0x04,
+};
+
+namespace o3tl
+{
+    template<> struct typed_flags<ConfigItemMode> : is_typed_flags<ConfigItemMode, 0x06> {};
+}
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    enum class ConfigNameFormat
+    {
+        LocalNode,     // local node name, for use in XNameAccess etc. ("Item", "Q & A")
+        LocalPath,     // one-level relative path, for use when building paths etc.  ("Item", "Typ['Q &amp; A']")
+    };
+
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC ConfigItem : public ConfigurationBroadcaster
+    {
+            friend class ConfigChangeListener_Impl;
+            friend class ConfigManager;
+
+            const OUString              sSubTree;
+            css::uno::Reference< css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess>
+                                        m_xHierarchyAccess;
+            css::uno::Reference< css::util::XChangesListener >
+                                        xChangeLstnr;
+            ConfigItemMode              m_nMode;
+            bool                        m_bIsModified;
+            bool                        m_bEnableInternalNotification;
+            sal_Int16                   m_nInValueChange;
+
+            void                    RemoveChangesListener();
+            void                    CallNotify(
+                                const css::uno::Sequence<OUString>& aPropertyNames);
+
+            // In special mode ALL_LOCALES we must support reading/writing of localized cfg entries as Sequence< PropertyValue >.
+            // These methods are helper to convert given lists of names and Any-values.
+            // format:  PropertyValue.Name  = <locale as ISO string>
+            //          PropertyValue.Value = <value; type depends from cfg entry!>
+            // e.g.
+            //          LOCALIZED NODE
+            //          "UIName"
+            //                      LOCALE      VALUE
+            //                      "de"        "Mein Name"
+            //                      "en-US"     "my name"
+            static void impl_packLocalizedProperties   (   const   css::uno::Sequence< OUString >&                  lInNames    ,
+                                                    const   css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any >&  lInValues   ,
+                                                            css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any >&  lOutValues  );
+            static void impl_unpackLocalizedProperties (
+                        const   css::uno::Sequence< OUString >&                  lInNames    ,
+                        const   css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any >&  lInValues   ,
+                                css::uno::Sequence< OUString >&                  lOutNames   ,
+                                css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any >&  lOutValues);
+
+            css::uno::Reference< css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess>
+                                        GetTree();
+            /** writes the changed values into the sub tree.
+                Private and only called from non-virtual public Commit().  */
+            virtual void            ImplCommit() = 0;
+
+        protected:
+            explicit ConfigItem(OUString aSubTree,
+                        ConfigItemMode nMode = ConfigItemMode::NONE);
+
+            void                    SetModified  (); // mark item as modified
+            void                    ClearModified(); // reset state after commit!
+
+            css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any>
+                                    GetProperties(const css::uno::Sequence< OUString >& rNames);
+
+            css::uno::Sequence< sal_Bool >
+                                    GetReadOnlyStates(const css::uno::Sequence< OUString >& rNames);
+
+            bool                PutProperties(
+                                        const css::uno::Sequence< OUString >& rNames,
+                                        const css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any>& rValues);
+
+            /** enables notifications about changes on selected sub nodes/values
+
+                Before calling this method a second time for a possibly changed node/value set,
+                you must disable the current notifications by calling DisableNotification.
+
+                @see Notify
+                @see DisableNotification
+            */
+            bool                EnableNotification(const css::uno::Sequence< OUString >& rNames,
+                                        bool bEnableInternalNotification = false);
+            /** disables notifications about changes on sub nodes/values, which previously had
+                been enabled with EnableNotification
+                @see Notify
+                @see EnableNotification
+            */
+            void                    DisableNotification();
+
+            //returns all members of a node in a specific format
+            css::uno::Sequence< OUString >
+                                    GetNodeNames(const OUString& rNode);
+            //returns all members of a node in a specific format
+            css::uno::Sequence< OUString >
+                                    GetNodeNames(const OUString& rNode, ConfigNameFormat eFormat);
+            // remove all members of a set
+            bool                ClearNodeSet(const OUString& rNode);
+            // remove selected members of a set
+            bool                ClearNodeElements(const OUString& rNode,
+                                        css::uno::Sequence< OUString > const & rElements);
+            // change or add members to a set
+            bool                SetSetProperties(const OUString& rNode, const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& rValues);
+            // remove, change or add members of a set
+            bool                ReplaceSetProperties(const OUString& rNode, const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& rValues);
+            // add a new node without setting any properties
+            bool                AddNode(const OUString& rNode, const OUString& rNewNode);
+
+        public:
+            virtual ~ConfigItem() override;
+
+            ConfigItem(ConfigItem const &) = default;
+            ConfigItem(ConfigItem &&) = default;
+            ConfigItem & operator =(ConfigItem const &) = delete; // due to const sSubTree
+            ConfigItem & operator =(ConfigItem &&) = delete; // due to const sSubTree
+
+            /** is called from the ConfigManager before application ends of from the
+                PropertyChangeListener if the sub tree broadcasts changes. */
+            virtual void            Notify( const css::uno::Sequence<OUString>& aPropertyNames)=0;
+
+            const OUString&         GetSubTreeName() const {return sSubTree;}
+
+            bool IsModified() const { return m_bIsModified;}
+
+            void                    Commit();
+
+            ConfigItemMode GetMode() const { return m_nMode;}
+
+            //returns all members of a node in a specific format
+            static css::uno::Sequence< OUString > GetNodeNames(
+                    css::uno::Reference<css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess> const & xHierarchyAccess,
+                    const OUString& rNode, ConfigNameFormat eFormat);
+            static css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any> GetProperties(
+                    css::uno::Reference<css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess> const & xHierarchyAccess,
+                    const css::uno::Sequence< OUString >& rNames,
+                    bool bAllLocales);
+            static bool PutProperties(
+                    css::uno::Reference<css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess> const & xHierarchyAccess,
+                    const css::uno::Sequence< OUString >& rNames,
+                    const css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any>& rValues,
+                    bool bAllLocales);
+            // remove all members of a set
+            static bool ClearNodeSet(
+                    css::uno::Reference<css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess> const & xHierarchyAccess,
+                    const OUString& rNode);
+            // remove, change or add members of a set
+            static bool ReplaceSetProperties(
+                    css::uno::Reference<css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess> const & xHierarchyAccess,
+                    const OUString& rNode,
+                    const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& rValues,
+                    bool bAllLocales);
+            // change or add members to a set
+            static bool SetSetProperties(
+                    css::uno::Reference<css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess> const & xHierarchyAccess,
+                    const OUString& rNode,
+                    const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& rValues);
+    };
+}//namespace utl
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGITEM_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/configmgr.hxx b/include/unotools/configmgr.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e8d42a28f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/configmgr.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,104 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGMGR_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGMGR_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <string_view>
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::container {
+    class XHierarchicalNameAccess;
+}
+namespace utl { class ConfigItem; }
+
+namespace utl {
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC ConfigManager {
+public:
+    static OUString getAboutBoxProductVersion();
+
+    static OUString getAboutBoxProductVersionSuffix();
+
+    static OUString getDefaultCurrency();
+
+    static OUString getUILocale();
+
+    static OUString getWorkLocale();
+
+    static OUString getProductExtension();
+
+    static OUString getProductName();
+
+    static OUString getProductVersion();
+
+    static OUString getVendor();
+
+    static void storeConfigItems();
+
+    SAL_DLLPRIVATE static ConfigManager & getConfigManager();
+
+    SAL_DLLPRIVATE static css::uno::Reference< css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess>
+    acquireTree(utl::ConfigItem const & item);
+
+    static css::uno::Reference< css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess>
+    acquireTree(std::u16string_view rSubTreeName);
+
+    SAL_DLLPRIVATE ConfigManager();
+
+    SAL_DLLPRIVATE ~ConfigManager();
+
+    SAL_DLLPRIVATE css::uno::Reference< css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess >
+    addConfigItem(utl::ConfigItem & item);
+
+    SAL_DLLPRIVATE void removeConfigItem(utl::ConfigItem & item);
+
+    SAL_DLLPRIVATE void registerConfigItem(utl::ConfigItem * item);
+
+    // Avoid using the config layer and rely on defaults which is only useful
+    // for special test tool targets (typically fuzzing) where start-up speed
+    // is of the essence
+#if defined(FUZZING_BUILD_MODE_UNSAFE_FOR_PRODUCTION)
+    static constexpr bool IsFuzzing() { return true; }
+#else
+    static bool IsFuzzing();
+#endif
+    static void EnableFuzzing();
+
+private:
+
+    ConfigManager(const ConfigManager&) = delete;
+    ConfigManager& operator=(const ConfigManager&) = delete;
+
+    void doStoreConfigItems();
+
+    std::vector< ConfigItem * > items_;
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/confignode.hxx b/include/unotools/confignode.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..f334aa149
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/confignode.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,272 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGNODE_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGNODE_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <unotools/eventlisteneradapter.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::container { class XHierarchicalNameAccess; }
+namespace com::sun::star::container { class XNameAccess; }
+namespace com::sun::star::container { class XNameContainer; }
+namespace com::sun::star::container { class XNameReplace; }
+namespace com::sun::star::lang { class XMultiServiceFactory; }
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+namespace com::sun::star::util { class XChangesBatch; }
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    /** a small wrapper around a configuration node.<p/>
+        Nodes in the terminology used herein are <em>inner</em> nodes of a configuration
+        tree, which means <em>no leafs</em>.
+    */
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OConfigurationNode : public ::utl::OEventListenerAdapter
+    {
+    private:
+        css::uno::Reference< css::container::XHierarchicalNameAccess >
+                    m_xHierarchyAccess;     /// accessing children grandchildren (mandatory interface of our UNO object)
+        css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >
+                    m_xDirectAccess;        /// accessing children  (mandatory interface of our UNO object)
+        css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameReplace >
+                    m_xReplaceAccess;       /// replacing child values
+        css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameContainer >
+                    m_xContainerAccess;     /// modifying set nodes  (optional interface of our UNO object)
+        bool        m_bEscapeNames;         /// escape names before accessing children ?
+
+        OConfigurationNode  insertNode(const OUString& _rName,const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >& _xNode) const noexcept;
+
+    protected:
+        /// constructs a node object with an interface representing a node
+        OConfigurationNode(
+            const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >& _rxNode
+        );
+
+        const css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >&
+            getUNONode() const { return m_xDirectAccess; }
+
+    public:
+        /// constructs an empty and invalid node object
+        OConfigurationNode() :m_bEscapeNames(false) { }
+        /// copy ctor
+        OConfigurationNode(const OConfigurationNode& _rSource);
+        /// move ctor
+        OConfigurationNode(OConfigurationNode&& _rSource);
+
+        /// assignment
+        OConfigurationNode& operator=(const OConfigurationNode& _rSource);
+        OConfigurationNode& operator=(OConfigurationNode&& _rSource);
+
+        /// returns the local name of the node
+        OUString     getLocalName() const;
+
+        /** open a sub node
+            @param      _rPath      access path of the to-be-opened sub node. May be a hierarchical path.
+        */
+        OConfigurationNode  openNode(const OUString& _rPath) const noexcept;
+
+        OConfigurationNode  openNode( const char* _pAsciiPath ) const
+        {
+            return openNode( OUString::createFromAscii( _pAsciiPath ) );
+        }
+
+        /** create a new child node
+
+            If the object represents a set node, this method may be used to create a new child. For non-set-nodes, the
+            method will fail.<br/>
+            Unless the respective operations on the pure configuration API, the to-be-created node immediately
+            becomes a part of its hierarchy, no explicit insertion is necessary.
+            @param      _rName      name for the new child. Must be level-1-depth.
+        */
+        OConfigurationNode  createNode(const OUString& _rName) const noexcept;
+
+        /** remove an existent child nod
+
+            If the object represents a set node, this method may be used to delete an existent child. For non-set-nodes,
+            the method will fail.
+        */
+        bool            removeNode(const OUString& _rName) const noexcept;
+
+        /** retrieves the content of a descendant
+
+            the returned value may contain anything from an interface (if <arg>_rPath</arg> refers to inner node of
+            the configuration tree) to any explicit value (e.g. string, integer) or even void.<br/>
+            Unfortunately, this implies that if a void value is returned, you won't have a clue if this means
+            "the path does not exist" (besides the assertion made :), or if the value is really void.
+        */
+        css::uno::Any       getNodeValue(const OUString& _rPath) const noexcept;
+
+        css::uno::Any       getNodeValue( const char* _pAsciiPath ) const
+        {
+            return getNodeValue( OUString::createFromAscii( _pAsciiPath ) );
+        }
+
+        /** write a node value<p/>
+            The value given is written into the node specified by the given relative path.<br/>
+            In opposite to <method>getNodeValue</method>, _rName must refer to a leaf in the configuration tree, not an inner
+            node.
+            @return     sal_True if and only if the write was successful.
+        */
+        bool            setNodeValue(const OUString& _rPath, const css::uno::Any& _rValue) const noexcept;
+
+        bool            setNodeValue( const char* _pAsciiPath, const css::uno::Any& _rValue ) const
+        {
+            return setNodeValue( OUString::createFromAscii( _pAsciiPath ), _rValue );
+        }
+
+        /// return the names of the existing children
+        css::uno::Sequence< OUString >
+                            getNodeNames() const noexcept;
+
+        /// invalidate the object
+        virtual void clear() noexcept;
+
+        // meta information about the node
+
+        /// checks whether or not the object represents a set node.
+        bool isSetNode() const;
+
+        /// checks whether or not a direct child with a given name exists
+        bool hasByName(const OUString& _rName) const noexcept;
+
+        /// checks whether or not a descendent (no matter if direct or indirect) with the given name exists
+        bool hasByHierarchicalName( const OUString& _rName ) const noexcept;
+
+        /// check if the objects represents a valid configuration node
+        bool isValid() const { return m_xHierarchyAccess.is(); }
+
+        /// check whether the object is read-only of updatable
+        bool isReadonly() const { return !m_xReplaceAccess.is(); }
+
+    protected:
+        // OEventListenerAdapter
+        virtual void _disposing( const css::lang::EventObject& _rSource ) override;
+
+    protected:
+        enum NAMEORIGIN
+        {
+            NO_CONFIGURATION,       /// the name came from a configuration node
+            NO_CALLER               /// the name came from a client of this class
+        };
+        OUString normalizeName(const OUString& _rName, NAMEORIGIN _eOrigin) const;
+    };
+
+    //= OConfigurationTreeRoot
+
+    /** a specialized version of an OConfigurationNode, representing the root
+        of a configuration sub tree<p/>
+        Only this class is able to commit any changes made any any OConfigurationNode
+        objects.
+    */
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OConfigurationTreeRoot final : public OConfigurationNode
+    {
+        css::uno::Reference< css::util::XChangesBatch >
+                                m_xCommitter;
+        /** ctor for a readonly node
+        */
+        OConfigurationTreeRoot(
+            const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >& _rxRootNode
+        );
+
+    public:
+        /// modes to use when creating a top-level node object
+        enum CREATION_MODE
+        {
+            /// open the node (i.e. sub tree) for read access only
+            CM_READONLY,
+            /// open the node (i.e. sub tree) for read and write access, fall back to read-only if write access is not possible
+            CM_UPDATABLE
+        };
+
+    public:
+        /** default ctor<p/>
+            The object constructed here is invalid (i.e. <method>isValid</method> will return sal_False).
+        */
+        OConfigurationTreeRoot() {}
+
+        /** creates a configuration tree for the given path in the given mode
+        */
+        OConfigurationTreeRoot(
+            const css::uno::Reference<css::uno::XComponentContext> & i_rContext,
+            const OUString& i_rNodePath,
+            const bool i_bUpdatable
+        );
+
+        /** open a new top-level configuration node
+
+            opens a new node which is the root if an own configuration sub tree. This is what "top level" means: The
+            node does not have a parent. It does not mean that the node represents a module tree (like org.openoffice.Office.Writer
+            or such).<br/>
+            In opposite to <method>createWithServiceFactory</method>, createWithProvider expects a configuration provider
+            to work with.
+
+            @param      _rxConfProvider configuration provider to use when retrieving the node.
+            @param      _rPath          path to the node the object should represent
+            @param      _nDepth         depth for node retrieval
+            @param      _eMode          specifies which privileges should be applied when retrieving the node
+
+            @see    createWithServiceFactory
+        */
+        static OConfigurationTreeRoot createWithProvider(
+                const css::uno::Reference< css::lang::XMultiServiceFactory >& _rxConfProvider,
+                const OUString& _rPath,
+                sal_Int32 _nDepth,
+                CREATION_MODE _eMode
+            );
+
+        /** open a new top-level configuration node<p/>
+            opens a new node which is the root if an own configuration sub tree. This is what "top level" means: The
+            node does not have a parent. It does not mean that the node represents a module tree (like org.openoffice.Office.Writer
+            or such).<br/>
+            In opposite to <method>createWithProvider</method>, createWithProvider expects a service factory. This factory
+            is used to create a configuration provider, and this provider is used to retrieve the node
+            @see    createWithProvider
+            @param      _rxContext      service factory to use to create the configuration provider.
+            @param      _rPath          path to the node the object should represent
+            @param      _nDepth         depth for node retrieval
+            @param      _eMode          specifies which privileges should be applied when retrieving the node
+        */
+        static OConfigurationTreeRoot createWithComponentContext(const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >& _rxContext,
+            const OUString& _rPath, sal_Int32 _nDepth = -1, CREATION_MODE _eMode = CM_UPDATABLE);
+
+        /** tolerant version of the <member>createWithServiceFactory</member>
+
+            <p>No assertions are thrown in case of a failure to initialize the configuration service, but once
+            the configuration could be initialized, errors in the creation of the specific node (e.g. because the
+            given node path does not exist) are still asserted.</p>
+        */
+        static OConfigurationTreeRoot tryCreateWithComponentContext( const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >& rxContext,
+            const OUString& _rPath, sal_Int32 _nDepth = -1, CREATION_MODE _eMode = CM_UPDATABLE );
+
+        /** commit all changes made on the subtree the object is the root for<p/>
+            All changes made on any OConfigurationNode object retrieved (maybe indirect) from this root
+            object are committed when calling this method.
+            @return     sal_True if and only if the commit was successful
+        */
+        bool commit() const noexcept;
+
+        /// invalidate the object
+        virtual void clear() noexcept override;
+    };
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGNODE_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/configpaths.hxx b/include/unotools/configpaths.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..119733a47
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/configpaths.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,162 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGPATHS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGPATHS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    /** extract the local nodename and the parent nodepath
+        from a configuration path.
+
+        @param _sInPath
+            A configuration path that is not an empty or root path.<BR/>
+            If this is not a valid configuration path, it is interpreted as
+            local name of a node.
+
+        @param _rsOutPath
+            On exit: The configuration path obtained by dropping
+                     the last level off <var>_sInPath</var>.<BR/>
+                     If <var>_sInPath</var> could not be parsed as a valid
+                     configuration path, this is set to an empty string.
+
+        @param _rsLocalName
+            On exit: The plain (non-escaped) name of the node identified by
+                     <var>_sInPath</var>. <BR/>
+                     If <var>_sInPath</var> could not be parsed as a valid
+                     configuration path, this is set to <var>_sInPath</var>.
+
+        @returns
+            <TRUE/>,  if a parent path could be set
+            <FALSE/>, if the path was a one-level path or an invalid path
+
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool splitLastFromConfigurationPath(OUString const& _sInPath,
+                                            OUString& _rsOutPath,
+                                            OUString& _rsLocalName);
+
+    /** extract the first nodename from a configuration path.
+
+        @param _sInPath
+            A relative configuration path that is not empty.<BR/>
+            If this is not a valid configuration path, it is interpreted as
+            a single name of a node.
+
+        @param _sOutPath
+            If non-null, contains the remainder of the path upon return.
+
+        @returns
+            The plain (non-escaped) name of the node that is the first step
+            when traversing <var>_sInPath</var>.<BR/>
+            If <var>_sInPath</var> could not be parsed as a valid
+            configuration path, it is returned unaltered.
+
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString extractFirstFromConfigurationPath(
+        OUString const& _sInPath, OUString* _sOutPath = nullptr);
+
+    /** check whether a path is to a nested node with respect to a parent path.
+
+        @param _sNestedPath
+            A configuration path that maybe points to a descendant of the node
+            identified by <var>_sPrefixPath</var>, with both paths starting
+            from the same node (or both being absolute).
+
+        @param _sPrefixPath
+            A configuration path.<BR/>
+            If this path is absolute, <var>_sNestedPath</var> should be absolute;
+            If this path is relative, <var>_sNestedPath</var> should be relative;
+            If this path is empty,    <var>_sNestedPath</var> may start with a '/',
+            which is disregarded.
+
+        @returns
+            <TRUE/>, if <var>_sPrefixPath</var> is  a prefix of <var>_sNestedPath</var>;
+            <FALSE/> otherwise.<BR/>
+            If both paths are equal <TRUE/> is returned.
+
+    */
+    bool isPrefixOfConfigurationPath(std::u16string_view _sNestedPath,
+                                         std::u16string_view _sPrefixPath);
+
+    /** get the relative path to a nested node with respect to a parent path.
+
+        @param _sNestedPath
+            A configuration path that points to a descendant of the node
+            identified by <var>_sPrefixPath</var>, with both paths starting
+            from the same node (or both being absolute).
+
+        @param _sPrefixPath
+            A configuration path.<BR/>
+            If this path is absolute, <var>_sNestedPath</var> must be absolute;
+            If this path is relative, <var>_sNestedPath</var> must be relative;
+            If this path is empty, <var>_sNestedPath</var> may start with a '/',
+            which is stripped.
+
+        @returns
+            The remaining relative path from the target of <var>_sPrefixPath</var>
+            to the target of <var>_sNestedPath</var>.<BR/>
+            If <var>_sPrefixPath</var> is not a prefix of <var>_sNestedPath</var>,
+            <var>_sNestedPath</var> is returned unaltered.
+
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString dropPrefixFromConfigurationPath(OUString const& _sNestedPath,
+                                                    std::u16string_view _sPrefixPath);
+
+    /** Create a one-level relative configuration path from a set element name
+        without a known set element type.
+
+        @param _sElementName
+            An arbitrary string that is to be interpreted as
+            name of a configuration set element.
+
+        @returns
+            A one-level relative path to the element, of the form
+            "*['<Name>']", where <Name> is properly escaped.
+
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString wrapConfigurationElementName(std::u16string_view _sElementName);
+
+    /** Create a one-level relative configuration path from a set element name
+        and a known set element type.
+
+        @param _sElementName
+            An arbitrary string that is to be interpreted as
+            name of a configuration set element.
+
+        @param _sTypeName
+            An string identifying the type of the element. Usually this is be
+            the name of the element-template of the set.<BR/>
+
+        @returns
+            A one-level relative path to the element, of the form
+            "<Type>['<Name>']", where <Name> is properly escaped.
+
+    */
+    OUString wrapConfigurationElementName(std::u16string_view _sElementName,
+                                                 OUString const& _sTypeName);
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGPATHS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/configvaluecontainer.hxx b/include/unotools/configvaluecontainer.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..c4447fca2
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/configvaluecontainer.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,153 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGVALUECONTAINER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGVALUECONTAINER_HXX
+
+#include <config_options.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Type.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { template <typename > class Reference; }
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+namespace osl { class Mutex; }
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    struct OConfigurationValueContainerImpl;
+    struct NodeValueAccessor;
+
+    //= OConfigurationValueContainer
+
+    /** allows simple access to static configuration structures.
+
+        <p>The basic idea of this class is that it's clients (usually derived classes) simply register an
+        address in memory and a node path, and upon explicit request, the configuration value and the memory
+        are synchronized.<br/>
+        This means that when calling <method>read</method>, the current configuration values are copied into
+        the memory registered for them, and upon calling <method>write</method> the current values in memory
+        are set in the configuration nodes.</p>
+
+        <p>This way, the usage of this class is pretty straight forward: derive your own class, spend some members
+        to it, and bind these members to configuration node (usually done in the ctor of the derived class).<br/>
+        In the dtor, simply call <method>write</method> and <method>commit</method>.</p>
+
+        <p>There is no auto-commit mechanism in the dtor: In the usual scenario, when you derive from this class
+        and bind some members of your derived class to config nodes, this means that your members will be destroyed
+        before your base class' dtor is called, so accessing the memory during such a theoretical auto-commit would
+        yield undefined behaviour.</p>
+    */
+    class UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) OConfigurationValueContainer
+    {
+    private:
+        std::unique_ptr<OConfigurationValueContainerImpl> m_pImpl;
+
+    protected:
+
+        // construction/destruction
+
+        /** constructs the object
+
+            @param _rxORB
+                specifies the service factory which should be used to access the configuration
+            @param _rAccessSafety
+                As this class is intended to manipulate objects it does not hold itself (see the various
+                registerXXX methods), it needs to guard these access for multi threading safety.<br/>
+                The mutex given here is locked whenever such an access occurs.
+            @param _pConfigLocation
+                is an ASCII string describing the configurations node path
+            @param _nAccessFlags
+                specifies different aspects of the configuration aspect to be created, e.g. it's update mode etc.<br/>
+                See the CVC_xxx constants for what you can use here.
+            @param _nLevels
+                specifies the number of levels to access under the node given by <arg>_pConfigLocation</arg>
+        */
+        OConfigurationValueContainer(
+            const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >& _rxORB,
+            ::osl::Mutex& _rAccessSafety,
+            const char* _pConfigLocation,
+            const sal_Int32 _nLevels
+        );
+
+        /// dtor
+        ~OConfigurationValueContainer();
+
+        // registering data containers
+
+        /** registers a data accessor of an arbitrary type.
+
+            <p>Usually, in your derived class you simply add a member of the correct type of the configuration
+            value, and then call this method with the address of this member.</p>
+
+            @param _pRelativePathAscii
+                is a relative (ASCII) path of the node which should be "mirrored" into the accessor.
+            @param _pContainer
+                points to the accessors location in memory. Usually, this is simply an address of your derived class
+            @param _rValueType
+                is the type of your accessor. This type must be supported by the configuration.
+        */
+        void    registerExchangeLocation(
+            const char* _pRelativePathAscii,
+            void* _pContainer,
+            const css::uno::Type& _rValueType
+        );
+
+    public:
+        /** reads the configuration data
+
+            <p>The current values of the nodes bound (using the registerXXX methods) is copied into their
+            respective exchange locations.</p>
+
+            <p>Please note that any changes done to your exchange locations are overridden with the current config
+            values.</p>
+
+            @see write
+        */
+        void    read( );
+
+        /** commits any changes done
+
+            <p>Note that calling <method>write</method>(<sal_True/) is the same as calling <method>commit</method>(<TRUE/>).</p>
+
+            The current values in the exchange locations are written to the configuration nodes
+            before the changes are committed.<br/>
+
+            @precond
+                The access must have been created for update access
+        */
+        void    commit();
+
+    private:
+        /// implements the ctors
+        void implConstruct(
+            const OUString& _rConfigLocation,
+            const sal_Int32 _nLevels
+        );
+
+        /// registers a value container
+        void    implRegisterExchangeLocation( const NodeValueAccessor& _rAccessor );
+    };
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_CONFIGVALUECONTAINER_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/datetime.hxx b/include/unotools/datetime.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..368ffcb39
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/datetime.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,59 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_DATETIME_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DATETIME_HXX
+
+//= conversions UNO3.TimeClass <-> Tools.TimeClass (Date/Time/DateTime)
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::util { struct Date; }
+namespace com::sun::star::util { struct DateTime; }
+namespace com::sun::star::util { struct Time; }
+
+class Date;
+class DateTime;
+class LocaleDataWrapper;
+
+namespace utl
+{
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC const LocaleDataWrapper& GetLocaleData();
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC DateTime GetDateTime(const css::util::DateTime& _rDT);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString GetDateTimeString(const css::util::DateTime& _rDT);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString GetDateTimeString(sal_Int32 _nDate, sal_Int32 _nTime);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString GetDateString(const css::util::DateTime& _rDT);
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void typeConvert(const Date& _rDate, css::util::Date& _rOut);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void typeConvert(const css::util::Date& _rDate, Date& _rOut);
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void typeConvert(const DateTime& _rDateTime, css::util::DateTime& _rOut);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void typeConvert(const css::util::DateTime& _rDateTime, DateTime& _rOut);
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString toISO8601(const css::util::DateTime& _rDateTime);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool            ISO8601parseDateTime(std::u16string_view i_rIn, css::util::DateTime& o_rDateTime);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool            ISO8601parseDate(std::u16string_view i_rIn, css::util::Date& o_rDate);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool            ISO8601parseTime(std::u16string_view i_rIn, css::util::Time& o_Time);
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DATETIME_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/defaultencoding.hxx b/include/unotools/defaultencoding.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8cde4bccb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/defaultencoding.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+/* -*- 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/.
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DEFAULTENCODING_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DEFAULTENCODING_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+/** Determines which locale should be used by default in filters when importing non-unicode strings.
+This value should be used when the file does not explicitly define encoding of 8-bit strings. It is
+defined by officecfg::Office::Linguistic::General::DefaultLocale, or when it's not set,
+officecfg::Setup::L10N::ooSetupSystemLocale, and is typically mapped to a corresponding Windows
+codepage by filters.
+
+@return
+A BCP-47 language tag string.
+*/
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString utl_getLocaleForGlobalDefaultEncoding();
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DEFAULTENCODING_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/defaultoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/defaultoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dfa07fb5e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/defaultoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,30 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <unotools/pathoptions.hxx>
+
+namespace SvtDefaultOptions
+{
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString GetDefaultPath(SvtPathOptions::Paths nId);
+};
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/desktopterminationobserver.hxx b/include/unotools/desktopterminationobserver.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0d230d357
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/desktopterminationobserver.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_DESKTOPTERMINATIONOBSERVER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DESKTOPTERMINATIONOBSERVER_HXX
+
+#include <config_options.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    //= ITerminationListener
+
+    /** non-UNO version of the com.sun.star.frame::XTerminateListener
+    */
+    class ITerminationListener
+    {
+    public:
+        virtual bool    queryTermination() const = 0;
+        virtual void    notifyTermination() = 0;
+
+    protected:
+        ~ITerminationListener() {}
+    };
+
+    //= DesktopTerminationObserver
+
+    /** a class which allows non-UNO components to observe the desktop (aka application)
+        for its shutdown
+    */
+    namespace DesktopTerminationObserver
+    {
+        /** registers a listener which should be notified when the desktop terminates
+            (which means the application is shutting down)
+        */
+        UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) void registerTerminationListener( ITerminationListener* _pListener );
+
+        /** revokes a termination listener
+        */
+        UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) void revokeTerminationListener( ITerminationListener const * _pListener );
+    }
+
+} // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DESKTOPTERMINATIONOBSERVER_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/digitgroupingiterator.hxx b/include/unotools/digitgroupingiterator.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7206f72f1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/digitgroupingiterator.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,194 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_DIGITGROUPINGITERATOR_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DIGITGROUPINGITERATOR_HXX
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+#include <sal/log.hxx>
+
+namespace utl {
+
+/** Iterator to be used with a digit grouping as obtained through
+    LocaleDataWrapper::getDigitGrouping().
+
+    The iterator advances over the digit groupings, returning the number of
+    digits per group. If the last group was encountered the iterator will
+    always return the last grouping.
+
+    Grouping values are sanitized to be >= 0, even if originally signed
+    sal_Int32.
+
+    Usage example with a string buffer containing a decimal representation of
+    an integer number. Note that of course this loop could be optimized to not
+    count single characters but hunks of groups instead using the get() method,
+    this is just for illustrating usage. Anyway, for double values it is highly
+    more efficient to use ::rtl::math::doubleToString() and pass the grouping
+    sequence, instead of using this iterator and inserting characters into
+    strings.
+
+    DigitGroupingIterator aGrouping(...)
+    sal_Int32 nCount = 0;
+    sal_Int32 n = aBuffer.getLength();
+    // >1 because we don't want to insert a separator if there is no leading digit.
+    while (n-- > 1)
+    {
+        if (++nCount >= aGrouping.getPos())
+        {
+            aBuffer.insert( n, cSeparator);
+            nGroupDigits = aGrouping.advance();
+        }
+    }
+
+ */
+
+class DigitGroupingIterator
+{
+    const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int32 > maGroupings;
+
+    sal_Int32   mnGroup;        // current active grouping
+    sal_Int32   mnDigits;       // current active digits per group
+    sal_Int32   mnNextPos;      // position (in digits) of next grouping
+
+    void setInfinite()
+    {
+        mnGroup = maGroupings.getLength();
+    }
+
+    bool isInfinite() const
+    {
+        return mnGroup >= maGroupings.getLength();
+    }
+
+    sal_Int32 getGrouping() const
+    {
+        if (mnGroup < maGroupings.getLength())
+        {
+            sal_Int32 n = maGroupings[mnGroup];
+            SAL_WARN_IF( n < 0, "unotools.i18n", "DigitGroupingIterator::getGrouping: negative grouping");
+            if (n < 0)
+                n = 0;      // sanitize ...
+            return n;
+        }
+        return 0;
+    }
+
+    void setPos()
+    {
+        // someone might be playing jokes on us, so check for overflow
+        if (mnNextPos <= SAL_MAX_INT32 - mnDigits)
+            mnNextPos += mnDigits;
+    }
+
+    void setDigits()
+    {
+        sal_Int32 nPrev = mnDigits;
+        mnDigits = getGrouping();
+        if (!mnDigits)
+        {
+            mnDigits = nPrev;
+            setInfinite();
+        }
+        setPos();
+    }
+
+    void initGrouping()
+    {
+        mnDigits = 3;       // just in case of constructed with empty grouping
+        mnGroup = 0;
+        mnNextPos = 0;
+        setDigits();
+    }
+
+    DigitGroupingIterator( const DigitGroupingIterator & ) = delete;
+    DigitGroupingIterator & operator=( const DigitGroupingIterator & ) = delete;
+
+public:
+
+    explicit DigitGroupingIterator( const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int32 > & rGroupings )
+        : maGroupings( rGroupings)
+    {
+        initGrouping();
+    }
+
+    /** Advance iterator to next grouping. */
+    DigitGroupingIterator & advance()
+    {
+        if (isInfinite())
+            setPos();
+        else
+        {
+            ++mnGroup;
+            setDigits();
+        }
+        return *this;
+    }
+
+    /** Obtain current grouping. Always > 0. */
+    sal_Int32 get() const
+    {
+        return mnDigits;
+    }
+
+    /** The next position (in integer digits) from the right where to insert a
+        group separator. */
+    sal_Int32 getPos() const
+    {
+        return mnNextPos;
+    }
+
+    /** Reset iterator to start again from the right beginning. */
+    void reset()
+    {
+        initGrouping();
+    }
+
+    /** Create a sequence of bool values containing positions where to add a
+        separator when iterating forward over a string and copying digit per
+        digit. For example, for grouping in thousands and nIntegerDigits==7 the
+        sequence returned would be {1,0,0,1,0,0,0} so the caller would add a
+        separator after the 1st and the 4th digit. */
+    static css::uno::Sequence< sal_Bool > createForwardSequence(
+            sal_Int32 nIntegerDigits,
+            const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int32 > & rGroupings )
+    {
+        if (nIntegerDigits <= 0)
+            return css::uno::Sequence< sal_Bool >();
+        DigitGroupingIterator aIterator( rGroupings);
+        css::uno::Sequence< sal_Bool > aSeq( nIntegerDigits);
+        sal_Bool* pArr = aSeq.getArray();
+        for (sal_Int32 j = 0; --nIntegerDigits >= 0; ++j)
+        {
+            if (j == aIterator.getPos())
+            {
+                pArr[nIntegerDigits] = true;
+                aIterator.advance();
+            }
+            else
+                pArr[nIntegerDigits] = false;
+        }
+        return aSeq;
+    }
+};
+
+} // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DIGITGROUPINGITERATOR_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/docinfohelper.hxx b/include/unotools/docinfohelper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d6323cc9b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/docinfohelper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,35 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC DocInfoHelper
+{
+public:
+    static OUString GetGeneratorString();
+};
+
+} // namespace utl
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/dynamicmenuoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/dynamicmenuoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b046f7dbd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/dynamicmenuoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_DYNAMICMENUOPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DYNAMICMENUOPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <vector>
+
+/*-****************************************************************************************************************
+    @descr  struct to hold information about one menu entry.
+****************************************************************************************************************-*/
+struct SvtDynMenuEntry
+{
+    OUString    sURL;
+    OUString    sTitle;
+    OUString    sImageIdentifier;
+    OUString    sTargetName;
+};
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @descr          You can use these enum values to specify right menu if you call our interface methods.
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+enum class EDynamicMenuType
+{
+    NewMenu       =   0,
+    WizardMenu    =   1
+};
+
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          collect information about dynamic menus
+    @descr          Make it possible to configure dynamic menu structures of menus like "new" or "wizard".
+    @devstatus      ready to use
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+
+namespace SvtDynamicMenuOptions
+{
+
+    /*-****************************************************************************************************
+        @short      return complete specified list
+        @descr      Call it to get all entries of an dynamic menu.
+                    We return a list of all nodes with its names and properties.
+        @param      "eMenu" select right menu.
+        @return     A list of menu items is returned.
+
+        @onerror    We return an empty list.
+    *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC std::vector< SvtDynMenuEntry > GetMenu( EDynamicMenuType eMenu );
+
+
+};      // namespace SvtDynamicMenuOptions
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_DYNAMICMENUOPTIONS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/eventcfg.hxx b/include/unotools/eventcfg.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..7ddca4a96
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/eventcfg.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,88 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_EVENTCFG_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_EVENTCFG_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/beans/PropertyValue.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/document/XEventsSupplier.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/container/XNameReplace.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+
+enum class GlobalEventId
+{
+    STARTAPP,
+    CLOSEAPP,
+    DOCCREATED,
+    CREATEDOC,
+    LOADFINISHED,
+    OPENDOC,
+    PREPARECLOSEDOC,
+    CLOSEDOC,
+    SAVEDOC,
+    SAVEDOCDONE,
+    SAVEDOCFAILED,
+    SAVEASDOC,
+    SAVEASDOCDONE,
+    SAVEASDOCFAILED,
+    SAVETODOC,
+    SAVETODOCDONE,
+    SAVETODOCFAILED,
+    ACTIVATEDOC,
+    DEACTIVATEDOC,
+    PRINTDOC,
+    VIEWCREATED,
+    PREPARECLOSEVIEW,
+    CLOSEVIEW,
+    MODIFYCHANGED,
+    TITLECHANGED,
+    VISAREACHANGED,
+    MODECHANGED,
+    STORAGECHANGED,
+    LAST = STORAGECHANGED
+};
+
+class GlobalEventConfig_Impl;
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC GlobalEventConfig final :
+        public cppu::WeakImplHelper< css::document::XEventsSupplier, css::container::XNameReplace >
+{
+    public:
+        GlobalEventConfig( );
+        virtual ~GlobalEventConfig( ) override;
+
+        css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameReplace > SAL_CALL getEvents(  ) override;
+        void SAL_CALL replaceByName( const OUString& aName, const css::uno::Any& aElement ) override;
+        css::uno::Any SAL_CALL getByName( const OUString& aName ) override;
+        css::uno::Sequence< OUString > SAL_CALL getElementNames(  ) override;
+        sal_Bool SAL_CALL hasByName( const OUString& aName ) override;
+        css::uno::Type SAL_CALL getElementType(  ) override;
+        sal_Bool SAL_CALL hasElements(  ) override;
+        static OUString GetEventName( GlobalEventId nID );
+
+        css::uno::Sequence < css::beans::PropertyValue > getByName2( const OUString& aName );
+
+    private:
+        static GlobalEventConfig_Impl* m_pImpl;
+        static sal_Int32 m_nRefCount;
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_EVENTCFG_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/eventlisteneradapter.hxx b/include/unotools/eventlisteneradapter.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..92fbe212c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/eventlisteneradapter.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,65 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_EVENTLISTENERADAPTER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_EVENTLISTENERADAPTER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/EventObject.hpp>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { template <typename > class Reference; }
+namespace com::sun::star::lang { class XComponent; }
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    struct OEventListenerAdapterImpl;
+
+    //= OEventListenerAdapter
+
+    /** base class for non-UNO dispose listeners
+    */
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OEventListenerAdapter
+    {
+        friend class OEventListenerImpl;
+
+    private:
+        OEventListenerAdapter( const OEventListenerAdapter& _rSource ) = delete;
+        const OEventListenerAdapter& operator=( const OEventListenerAdapter& _rSource ) = delete;
+
+    protected:
+        std::unique_ptr<OEventListenerAdapterImpl>  m_pImpl;
+
+    protected:
+                OEventListenerAdapter();
+        virtual ~OEventListenerAdapter();
+
+        void startComponentListening( const css::uno::Reference< css::lang::XComponent >& _rxComp );
+        void stopComponentListening( const css::uno::Reference< css::lang::XComponent >& _rxComp );
+        void stopAllComponentListening(  );
+
+        virtual void _disposing( const css::lang::EventObject& _rSource ) = 0;
+    };
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_EVENTLISTENERADAPTER_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/extendedsecurityoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/extendedsecurityoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4a2b493e8
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/extendedsecurityoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+
+#pragma once
+
+namespace SvtExtendedSecurityOptions
+{
+    // Must be zero based!
+    enum OpenHyperlinkMode
+    {
+        OPEN_NEVER                  = 0,
+        OPEN_WITHSECURITYCHECK,
+    };
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/fltrcfg.hxx b/include/unotools/fltrcfg.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..bac46c03c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/fltrcfg.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,106 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_FLTRCFG_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_FLTRCFG_HXX
+
+#include <o3tl/deleter.hxx>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <unotools/configitem.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+struct SvtFilterOptions_Impl;
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtFilterOptions final : public utl::ConfigItem
+{
+private:
+    std::unique_ptr<SvtFilterOptions_Impl, o3tl::default_delete<SvtFilterOptions_Impl>> pImpl;
+
+    virtual void            ImplCommit() override;
+
+public:
+                    SvtFilterOptions();
+    virtual        ~SvtFilterOptions() override;
+
+    virtual void            Notify( const css::uno::Sequence<OUString>& aPropertyNames) override;
+    void                    Load();
+
+    void SetLoadWordBasicCode( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadWordBasicCode() const;
+    void SetLoadWordBasicExecutable( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadWordBasicExecutable() const;
+    void SetLoadWordBasicStorage( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadWordBasicStorage() const;
+
+    void SetLoadExcelBasicCode( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadExcelBasicCode() const;
+    void SetLoadExcelBasicExecutable( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadExcelBasicExecutable() const;
+    void SetLoadExcelBasicStorage( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadExcelBasicStorage() const;
+
+    void SetLoadPPointBasicCode( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadPPointBasicCode() const;
+    void SetLoadPPointBasicStorage( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsLoadPPointBasicStorage() const;
+
+    bool IsMathType2Math() const;
+    void SetMathType2Math( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsMath2MathType() const;
+    void SetMath2MathType( bool bFlag );
+
+    bool IsWinWord2Writer() const;
+    void SetWinWord2Writer( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsWriter2WinWord() const;
+    void SetWriter2WinWord( bool bFlag );
+
+    bool IsUseEnhancedFields() const;
+
+    bool IsExcel2Calc() const;
+    void SetExcel2Calc( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsCalc2Excel() const;
+    void SetCalc2Excel( bool bFlag );
+
+    bool IsPowerPoint2Impress() const;
+    void SetPowerPoint2Impress( bool bFlag );
+    bool IsImpress2PowerPoint() const;
+    void SetImpress2PowerPoint( bool bFlag );
+
+    bool IsSmartArt2Shape() const;
+    void SetSmartArt2Shape( bool bFlag );
+
+    bool IsEnablePPTPreview() const;
+    bool IsEnableCalcPreview() const;
+    bool IsEnableWordPreview() const;
+
+    bool IsCharBackground2Highlighting() const;
+    bool IsCharBackground2Shading() const;
+    void SetCharBackground2Highlighting();
+    void SetCharBackground2Shading();
+
+    bool IsMSOLockFileCreationIsEnabled() const;
+    void EnableMSOLockFileCreation(bool bEnable);
+
+    bool IsVisio2Draw() const;
+    void SetVisio2Draw(bool bFlag);
+
+    static SvtFilterOptions& Get();
+};
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/fontcfg.hxx b/include/unotools/fontcfg.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f77d4845
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/fontcfg.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_FONTCFG_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_FONTCFG_HXX
+
+#include <config_options.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <tools/fontenum.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <o3tl/typed_flags_set.hxx>
+#include <i18nlangtag/languagetag.hxx>
+
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <unordered_set>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::container { class XNameAccess; }
+namespace com::sun::star::lang { class XMultiServiceFactory; }
+
+enum class DefaultFontType;
+
+// If you think the below concept of classifying a font (typeface) as possibly being one or several
+// of "Default", "Standard", and "Normal", etc, is madness, you are probably right. On the other
+// hand we have in officecfg/registry/data/org/openoffice/VCL.xcu carefully (or not) assigned to
+// each font mentioned in that file what its attributes are, so it is quite possible that touching
+// this would cause a regression that nobody would notice until after many years.
+
+// Note that the bit flags must match the entries in the pAttribNames array in
+// unotools/source/config/fontcfg.cxx.
+
+enum class ImplFontAttrs : sal_uInt32
+{
+    None          = 0x00000000,
+    Default       = 0x00000001, ///< Default-Font like Andale Sans UI, Palace Script, Albany, Thorndale, Cumberland, ...
+    Standard      = 0x00000002, ///< Standard-Font like Arial, Times, Courier, ...
+    Normal        = 0x00000004, ///< Normal Font for writing text like Arial, Verdana, Arial Narrow, Trebuchet, Times, Courier, ...
+    Symbol        = 0x00000008, ///< Font with symbols
+    Fixed         = 0x00000010,
+    SansSerif     = 0x00000020,
+    Serif         = 0x00000040,
+    Decorative    = 0x00000080, ///< Readable and normally used for drawings
+    Special       = 0x00000100, ///< Very special design
+    Italic        = 0x00000200,
+    Titling       = 0x00000400, ///< Only uppercase characters
+    Capitals      = 0x00000800, ///< Only uppercase characters, but lowercase characters smaller as the uppercase characters
+    CJK           = 0x00001000,
+    CJK_JP        = 0x00002000,
+    CJK_SC        = 0x00004000,
+    CJK_TC        = 0x00008000,
+    CJK_KR        = 0x00010000,
+    CTL           = 0x00020000,
+    NoneLatin     = 0x00040000,
+    Full          = 0x00080000, ///< Font with normally all characters
+    Outline       = 0x00100000,
+    Shadow        = 0x00200000,
+    Rounded       = 0x00400000,
+    Typewriter    = 0x00800000, ///< Like a typewriter: Courier, ...
+    Script        = 0x01000000, ///< Handwriting or Script
+    Handwriting   = 0x02000000, ///< More Handwriting with normal letters
+    Chancery      = 0x04000000, ///< Like Zapf Chancery
+    Comic         = 0x08000000, ///< Like Comic Sans MS
+    BrushScript   = 0x10000000, ///< More Script
+    Gothic        = 0x20000000,
+    Schoolbook    = 0x40000000,
+    OtherStyle    = 0x80000000, ///< OldStyle, ... so negative points
+    CJK_AllLang   = CJK_JP | CJK_SC | CJK_TC | CJK_KR,
+    AllScript     = Script | Handwriting | Chancery | Comic | BrushScript,
+    AllSubscript  = Handwriting | Chancery | Comic | BrushScript,
+    AllSerifStyle = AllScript | SansSerif | Serif | Fixed | Italic | Gothic | Schoolbook | Shadow | Outline,
+};
+namespace o3tl
+{
+    template<> struct typed_flags<ImplFontAttrs> : is_typed_flags<ImplFontAttrs, 0xffffffff> {};
+}
+
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC DefaultFontConfiguration
+{
+    css::uno::Reference< css::lang::XMultiServiceFactory >
+            m_xConfigProvider;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >
+            m_xConfigAccess;
+
+    struct LocaleAccess
+    {
+        // the real string used in the configuration
+        // used to get rid of upper/lower case problems
+        OUString aConfigLocaleString;
+        // xAccess is mutable to be able to be filled on demand
+        mutable css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess > xAccess;
+    };
+
+    std::unordered_map< OUString, LocaleAccess > m_aConfig;
+
+    OUString tryLocale( const OUString& rBcp47, const OUString& rType ) const;
+
+    public:
+    DefaultFontConfiguration();
+    ~DefaultFontConfiguration();
+
+    static DefaultFontConfiguration& get();
+
+    OUString getDefaultFont( const LanguageTag& rLanguageTag, DefaultFontType nType ) const;
+    OUString getUserInterfaceFont( const LanguageTag& rLanguageTag ) const;
+};
+
+struct UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC FontNameAttr
+{
+    OUString                            Name;
+    ::std::vector< OUString >           Substitutions;
+    ::std::vector< OUString >           MSSubstitutions;
+    FontWeight                          Weight;
+    FontWidth                           Width;
+    ImplFontAttrs                       Type;
+};
+
+class UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) FontSubstConfiguration
+{
+private:
+    css::uno::Reference< css::lang::XMultiServiceFactory >
+            m_xConfigProvider;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >
+            m_xConfigAccess;
+    struct LocaleSubst
+    {
+        OUString                                aConfigLocaleString;
+        mutable bool                            bConfigRead;
+        // note: aSubstAttributes must be sorted alphabetically by Name
+        // searches on the substitutes are done with Name as key, where
+        // a minimal match is sufficient (that is e.g. "Thorndale" will match
+        // "Thorndale BlaBlub"). Also names must be lower case.
+        mutable std::vector< FontNameAttr >     aSubstAttributes;
+
+        LocaleSubst() : bConfigRead( false ) {}
+    };
+    std::unordered_map< OUString, LocaleSubst > m_aSubst;
+    typedef std::unordered_set< OUString > UniqueSubstHash;
+    mutable UniqueSubstHash maSubstHash;
+    LanguageTag maLanguageTag;
+
+    void fillSubstVector( const css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >& rFont,
+                          const OUString& rType,
+                          std::vector< OUString >& rSubstVector ) const;
+    FontWeight getSubstWeight( const css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >& rFont,
+                          const OUString& rType ) const;
+    FontWidth getSubstWidth( const css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >& rFont,
+                             const OUString& rType ) const;
+    ImplFontAttrs getSubstType( const css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess >& rFont,
+                                const OUString& rType ) const;
+    void readLocaleSubst( const OUString& rBcp47 ) const;
+public:
+    FontSubstConfiguration();
+    ~FontSubstConfiguration();
+
+    static FontSubstConfiguration& get();
+
+    const FontNameAttr* getSubstInfo( const OUString& rFontName ) const;
+    static void getMapName( const OUString& rOrgName, OUString& rShortName, OUString& rFamilyName, FontWeight& rWeight, FontWidth& rWidth, ImplFontAttrs& rType );
+};
+
+} // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_FONTCFG_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/fontcvt.hxx b/include/unotools/fontcvt.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..979183746
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/fontcvt.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,64 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_FONTCVT_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_FONTCVT_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <string_view>
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+
+enum class FontToSubsFontFlags
+{
+    IMPORT                   = 0x01,
+    EXPORT                   = 0x02
+};
+
+typedef void* FontToSubsFontConverter;
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC FontToSubsFontConverter     CreateFontToSubsFontConverter( std::u16string_view rFontName, FontToSubsFontFlags nFlags );
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC sal_Unicode                 ConvertFontToSubsFontChar( FontToSubsFontConverter hConverter, sal_Unicode c );
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString                    GetFontToSubsFontName( FontToSubsFontConverter hConverter );
+
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC StarSymbolToMSMultiFont
+{
+public:
+    // Returns the name of the best windows symbol font which this char can be
+    // mapped to. Sets rChar to the correct position for that font. If no
+    // match found, then no name is returned, and rChar is unchanged. If you
+    // want to convert a string, you don't want to use this.
+    virtual OUString ConvertChar(sal_Unicode &rChar) = 0;
+
+    virtual ~StarSymbolToMSMultiFont() {}
+};
+
+
+// The converter will allow somewhat dubious mappings to the windows symbols fonts,
+// that are nevertheless recognizably similar. Even in this mode there will be characters that fail.
+// The users of this might want to make a distinction between failed characters
+// which were inside and those outside the unicode private area.
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC StarSymbolToMSMultiFont *CreateStarSymbolToMSMultiFont();
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_FONTCVT_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/fontdefs.hxx b/include/unotools/fontdefs.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..aff10c860
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/fontdefs.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,111 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_FONTDEFS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_FONTDEFS_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <string_view>
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <o3tl/typed_flags_set.hxx>
+#include <config_options.h>
+
+enum class SubsFontFlags
+{
+    ONLYONE    = 0x01,
+    MS         = 0x02
+};
+
+namespace o3tl
+{
+    template<> struct typed_flags<SubsFontFlags> : is_typed_flags<SubsFontFlags, 0x03> {};
+}
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString GetSubsFontName( std::u16string_view rName, SubsFontFlags nFlags );
+
+UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) void AddTokenFontName( OUString& rName, std::u16string_view rNewToken );
+
+
+class UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) ConvertChar
+{
+public:
+    const sal_Unicode*  mpCvtTab;
+    const char*         mpSubsFontName;
+    sal_Unicode         (*mpCvtFunc)( sal_Unicode );
+    sal_Unicode         RecodeChar( sal_Unicode c ) const;
+    void                RecodeString( OUString& rStra, sal_Int32 nIndex, sal_Int32 nLen ) const;
+    static const ConvertChar* GetRecodeData( std::u16string_view rOrgFontName, std::u16string_view rMapFontName );
+};
+
+
+enum class DefaultFontType
+{
+    SANS_UNICODE        = 1,
+    SANS                = 2,
+    SERIF               = 3,
+    FIXED               = 4,
+    SYMBOL              = 5,
+    UI_SANS             = 1000,
+    UI_FIXED            = 1001,
+    LATIN_TEXT          = 2000,
+    LATIN_PRESENTATION  = 2001,
+    LATIN_SPREADSHEET   = 2002,
+    LATIN_HEADING       = 2003,
+    LATIN_DISPLAY       = 2004,
+    LATIN_FIXED         = 2005,
+    CJK_TEXT            = 3000,
+    CJK_PRESENTATION    = 3001,
+    CJK_SPREADSHEET     = 3002,
+    CJK_HEADING         = 3003,
+    CJK_DISPLAY         = 3004,
+    CTL_TEXT            = 4000,
+    CTL_PRESENTATION    = 4001,
+    CTL_SPREADSHEET     = 4002,
+    CTL_HEADING         = 4003,
+    CTL_DISPLAY         = 4004,
+};
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC std::u16string_view GetNextFontToken( std::u16string_view rTokenStr, sal_Int32& rIndex );
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString GetEnglishSearchFontName( std::u16string_view rName );
+
+/** Strip any "script font suffix" from the font name
+
+    Related: fdo#49271 RTF files often contain weird-ass
+    Win 3.1/Win95 style fontnames which attempt to put the
+    charset encoding into the filename
+    http://www.webcenter.ru/~kazarn/eng/fonts_ttf.htm
+*/
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString StripScriptFromName(const OUString& rName);
+
+/** Determine if the font is the special Star|Open Symbol font
+
+    @param rFontName
+    The FontName to test for being Star|Open Symbol
+
+    @return true if this is Star|Open Symbol
+*/
+// FIXME It's quite possible that code using this should instead check for RTL_TEXTENCODING_SYMBOL.
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool IsStarSymbol(std::u16string_view rFontName);
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_FONTDEFS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/historyoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/historyoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..1f743e062
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/historyoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,83 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <vector>
+#include <optional>
+
+/// You can use these enum values to specify right history if you call our interface methods.
+enum class EHistoryType
+{
+    PickList,
+    HelpBookmarks
+};
+
+/** Collect information about history features.
+
+    Interface methods to get and set value of config key "org.openoffice.Office.Common/History/..."
+
+    key "PickList": The last used documents displayed in the file menu.
+    key "History":  The last opened documents general.
+*/
+namespace SvtHistoryOptions
+{
+
+    /** Clear complete specified list.
+
+        @param      eHistory select right history.
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void Clear(EHistoryType eHistory);
+
+    /** Return the complete specified history list.
+
+        @param  eHistory select right history.
+        @return A list of history items is returned.
+    */
+    struct HistoryItem
+    {
+        OUString sURL;
+        OUString sFilter;
+        OUString sTitle;
+        OUString sPassword;
+        OUString sThumbnail;
+        bool isReadOnly = false;
+    };
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC std::vector< HistoryItem > GetList(EHistoryType eHistory);
+
+    /** Append a new item to the specified list.
+
+        The oldest entry is deleted automatically when the size reaches the maximum.
+
+        @param eHistory  select right history.
+        @param sURL      URL to save in history
+        @param sFilter   filter name to save in history
+        @param sTitle    document title to save in history
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void AppendItem(EHistoryType eHistory,
+            const OUString& sURL, const OUString& sFilter, const OUString& sTitle,
+            const std::optional<OUString>& sThumbnail, std::optional<bool> oIsReadOnly);
+
+    /** Delete item from the specified list.
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void DeleteItem(EHistoryType eHistory, const OUString& sURL);
+};
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/intlwrapper.hxx b/include/unotools/intlwrapper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e86346a95
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/intlwrapper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,91 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_INTLWRAPPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_INTLWRAPPER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.h>
+
+#include <i18nlangtag/languagetag.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+
+class CollatorWrapper;
+class LocaleDataWrapper;
+
+/**
+    A wrapper of I18N wrappers. Using this is more expensive than using some
+    single wrapper classes so use it only if you must pass a single pointer
+    without knowing in advance what is needed, e.g. for
+    SfxPoolItem::GetPresentation(). Remember that this wrapper was only created
+    for convenience to bypass some oddities, if possible don't use it. <p>
+
+    Implemented are only the const get...() methods of the wrappers, which are
+    loaded on demand, for consistency reasons no change of locale is possible.
+    Only default calendar and default collator are supported. <p>
+
+    One exception though is the calendar wrapper: to be able to set a value and
+    retrieve calendar values it is not const, so methods using this should
+    reset the calendar to the previous value if it isn't sure where the
+    IntlWrapper did come from. <p>
+ */
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC IntlWrapper
+{
+private:
+    LanguageTag         maLanguageTag;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > m_xContext;
+
+    std::unique_ptr<LocaleDataWrapper>  pLocaleData;
+    std::unique_ptr<CollatorWrapper>    pCollator;
+    std::unique_ptr<CollatorWrapper>    pCaseCollator;
+
+    void                ImplNewLocaleData() const;
+    void                ImplNewCollator( bool bCaseSensitive ) const;
+
+public:
+    IntlWrapper(LanguageTag aLanguageTag);
+    ~IntlWrapper();
+
+    const LocaleDataWrapper*    getLocaleData() const
+                                    {
+                                        if ( !pLocaleData )
+                                            ImplNewLocaleData();
+                                        return pLocaleData.get();
+                                    }
+    /// case insensitive collator, simple IGNORE_CASE
+    const CollatorWrapper*      getCollator() const
+                                    {
+                                        if ( !pCollator )
+                                            ImplNewCollator( false );
+                                        return pCollator.get();
+                                    }
+    /// case sensitive collator
+    const CollatorWrapper*      getCaseCollator() const
+                                    {
+                                        if ( !pCaseCollator )
+                                            ImplNewCollator( true );
+                                        return pCaseCollator.get();
+                                    }
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_INTLWRAPPER_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/itemholderbase.hxx b/include/unotools/itemholderbase.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9ce013162
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/itemholderbase.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_ITEMHOLDERBASE_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_ITEMHOLDERBASE_HXX
+
+#include <memory>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+
+enum class EItem
+{
+    AccessibilityOptions          ,   // 2
+
+    CmdOptions                    ,
+    ColorConfig                   ,   // 2
+    Compatibility                 ,
+    CTLOptions                    ,   // 2
+
+    EventConfig                   ,
+
+    LinguConfig                   ,
+
+    MiscOptions                   ,
+    ModuleOptions                 ,
+
+    PathOptions                   ,
+
+    SysLocaleOptions              ,   // 2
+
+    UserOptions                   ,   // 2
+};
+
+struct TItemInfo
+{
+    TItemInfo()
+        : eItem(EItem::UserOptions)
+    {
+    }
+
+    TItemInfo(TItemInfo&& other) noexcept
+        : pItem(std::move(other.pItem))
+        , eItem(other.eItem)
+    {
+    }
+
+    std::unique_ptr<utl::detail::Options> pItem;
+    EItem eItem;
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_ITEMHOLDERBASE_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/lingucfg.hxx b/include/unotools/lingucfg.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b4a0b824e
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/lingucfg.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,209 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_LINGUCFG_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_LINGUCFG_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Any.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+#include <i18nlangtag/lang.h>
+#include <vector>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::beans { struct PropertyValue; }
+namespace com::sun::star::util { class XChangesBatch; }
+
+class SvtLinguConfigItem;
+
+struct UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtLinguOptions
+{
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString >    aActiveDics;
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString >    aActiveConvDics;
+
+    bool                              bROActiveDics;
+    bool                              bROActiveConvDics;
+
+    // Hyphenator service specific options
+    sal_Int16   nHyphMinLeading,
+            nHyphMinTrailing,
+            nHyphMinWordLength;
+
+    bool    bROHyphMinLeading,
+            bROHyphMinTrailing,
+            bROHyphMinWordLength;
+
+    // misc options (non-service specific)
+    LanguageType nDefaultLanguage;
+    LanguageType nDefaultLanguage_CJK;
+    LanguageType nDefaultLanguage_CTL;
+
+    bool    bRODefaultLanguage;
+    bool    bRODefaultLanguage_CJK;
+    bool    bRODefaultLanguage_CTL;
+
+    // spelling options (non-service specific)
+    bool    bIsSpellSpecial;
+    bool    bIsSpellAuto;
+    bool    bIsSpellReverse;
+
+    bool    bROIsSpellSpecial;
+    bool    bROIsSpellAuto;
+    bool    bROIsSpellReverse;
+
+    // hyphenation options (non-service specific)
+    bool    bIsHyphSpecial;
+    bool    bIsHyphAuto;
+
+    bool    bROIsHyphSpecial;
+    bool    bROIsHyphAuto;
+
+    // common to SpellChecker, Hyphenator and Thesaurus service
+    bool    bIsUseDictionaryList;
+    bool    bIsIgnoreControlCharacters;
+
+    bool    bROIsUseDictionaryList;
+    bool    bROIsIgnoreControlCharacters;
+
+    // SpellChecker service specific options
+    bool    bIsSpellWithDigits,
+            bIsSpellUpperCase,
+            bIsSpellCapitalization;
+
+    bool    bROIsSpellWithDigits,
+            bROIsSpellUpperCase,
+            bROIsSpellCapitalization;
+
+    // text conversion specific options
+    bool    bIsIgnorePostPositionalWord;
+    bool    bIsAutoCloseDialog;
+    bool    bIsShowEntriesRecentlyUsedFirst;
+    bool    bIsAutoReplaceUniqueEntries;
+    bool    bIsDirectionToSimplified;
+    bool    bIsUseCharacterVariants;
+    bool    bIsTranslateCommonTerms;
+    bool    bIsReverseMapping;
+
+    bool    bROIsIgnorePostPositionalWord;
+    bool    bROIsAutoCloseDialog;
+    bool    bROIsShowEntriesRecentlyUsedFirst;
+    bool    bROIsAutoReplaceUniqueEntries;
+    bool    bROIsDirectionToSimplified;
+    bool    bROIsUseCharacterVariants;
+    bool    bROIsTranslateCommonTerms;
+    bool    bROIsReverseMapping;
+
+    // check value need to determine if the configuration needs to be updated
+    // or not (used for a quick check if data files have been changed/added
+    // or deleted
+    sal_Int32   nDataFilesChangedCheckValue;
+    bool    bRODataFilesChangedCheckValue;
+
+    bool    bIsGrammarAuto;
+    bool    bIsGrammarInteractive;
+
+    bool    bROIsGrammarAuto;
+    bool    bROIsGrammarInteractive;
+
+    SvtLinguOptions();
+};
+
+struct UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtLinguConfigDictionaryEntry
+{
+    // the URL's pointing to the location of the files the dictionary consists of
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString >  aLocations;
+    // the name of the dictionary format implement
+    OUString                                   aFormatName;
+    // the list of languages (ISO names) the dictionary can be used for
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString >  aLocaleNames;
+};
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtLinguConfig final : public utl::detail::Options
+{
+    // returns static object
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPRIVATE static SvtLinguConfigItem & GetConfigItem();
+
+    // configuration update access for the 'Linguistic' main node
+    mutable css::uno::Reference< css::util::XChangesBatch > m_xMainUpdateAccess;
+
+    css::uno::Reference< css::util::XChangesBatch > const & GetMainUpdateAccess() const;
+
+    OUString GetVendorImageUrl_Impl( const OUString &rServiceImplName, const OUString &rImageName ) const;
+
+    SvtLinguConfig( const SvtLinguConfig & ) = delete;
+    SvtLinguConfig & operator = ( const SvtLinguConfig & ) = delete;
+
+public:
+    SvtLinguConfig();
+    virtual ~SvtLinguConfig() override;
+
+    // borrowed from utl::ConfigItem
+
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString >
+        GetNodeNames( const OUString &rNode ) const;
+
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::uno::Any >
+        GetProperties(
+            const css::uno::Sequence< OUString > &rNames ) const;
+
+    bool
+        ReplaceSetProperties(
+            const OUString &rNode,
+            const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& rValues );
+
+    css::uno::Any
+            GetProperty( std::u16string_view rPropertyName ) const;
+    css::uno::Any
+            GetProperty( sal_Int32 nPropertyHandle ) const;
+
+    bool    SetProperty( std::u16string_view rPropertyName,
+                         const css::uno::Any &rValue );
+    bool    SetProperty( sal_Int32 nPropertyHandle,
+                         const css::uno::Any &rValue );
+
+    void    GetOptions( SvtLinguOptions &rOptions ) const;
+
+    bool    IsReadOnly( std::u16string_view rPropertyName ) const;
+
+    //!
+    //! the following functions work on the 'ServiceManager' sub node of the
+    //! linguistic configuration only
+    //!
+    bool GetElementNamesFor( const OUString &rNodeName, css::uno::Sequence< OUString > &rElementNames ) const;
+
+    bool GetSupportedDictionaryFormatsFor( const OUString &rSetName, const OUString &rSetEntry, css::uno::Sequence< OUString > &rFormatList ) const;
+
+    bool GetDictionaryEntry( const OUString &rNodeName, SvtLinguConfigDictionaryEntry &rDicEntry ) const;
+
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString > GetDisabledDictionaries() const;
+
+    std::vector< SvtLinguConfigDictionaryEntry > GetActiveDictionariesByFormat( std::u16string_view rFormatName ) const;
+
+    // functions returning file URLs to the respective images (if found) and empty string otherwise
+    OUString     GetSpellAndGrammarContextSuggestionImage( const OUString &rServiceImplName ) const;
+    OUString     GetSpellAndGrammarContextDictionaryImage( const OUString &rServiceImplName ) const;
+    OUString     GetSynonymsContextImage( const OUString &rServiceImplName ) const;
+
+    bool                HasGrammarChecker() const;
+};
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/linguprops.hxx b/include/unotools/linguprops.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..971c02804
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/linguprops.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,119 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+#pragma GCC diagnostic push
+#pragma GCC diagnostic ignored "-Wunused-variable"
+#endif
+
+// UNO property names for general options
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_GERMAN_PRE_REFORM            = u"IsGermanPreReform";     /*! deprecated #i91949 !*/
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_USE_DICTIONARY_LIST          = u"IsUseDictionaryList";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_IGNORE_CONTROL_CHARACTERS    = u"IsIgnoreControlCharacters";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_ACTIVE_DICTIONARIES             = u"ActiveDictionaries";
+
+// UNO property names for SpellChecker
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SPELL_UPPER_CASE             = u"IsSpellUpperCase";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SPELL_WITH_DIGITS            = u"IsSpellWithDigits";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SPELL_CAPITALIZATION         = u"IsSpellCapitalization";
+
+// UNO property names for Hyphenator
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_HYPH_MIN_LEADING                = u"HyphMinLeading";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_HYPH_MIN_TRAILING               = u"HyphMinTrailing";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_HYPH_MIN_WORD_LENGTH            = u"HyphMinWordLength";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_HYPH_NO_CAPS                    = u"HyphNoCaps";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_HYPH_NO_LAST_WORD               = u"HyphNoLastWord";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_HYPH_ZONE                       = u"HyphZone";
+
+// UNO property names for Lingu
+// (those not covered by the SpellChecker and Hyphenator
+// properties and more likely to be used in other modules only)
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE                = u"DefaultLanguage";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_DEFAULT_LOCALE                  = u"DefaultLocale";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_DEFAULT_LOCALE_CJK              = u"DefaultLocale_CJK";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_DEFAULT_LOCALE_CTL              = u"DefaultLocale_CTL";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_HYPH_AUTO                    = u"IsHyphAuto";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_HYPH_SPECIAL                 = u"IsHyphSpecial";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SPELL_AUTO                   = u"IsSpellAuto";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SPELL_HIDE                   = u"IsSpellHide";           /*! deprecated #i91949 !*/
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SPELL_IN_ALL_LANGUAGES       = u"IsSpellInAllLanguages"; /*! deprecated #i91949 !*/
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SPELL_SPECIAL                = u"IsSpellSpecial";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_WRAP_REVERSE                 = u"IsWrapReverse";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_DATA_FILES_CHANGED_CHECK_VALUE  = u"DataFilesChangedCheckValue";
+
+// UNO property names for text conversion options
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_ACTIVE_CONVERSION_DICTIONARIES  = u"ActiveConversionDictionaries";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_IGNORE_POST_POSITIONAL_WORD  = u"IsIgnorePostPositionalWord";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_AUTO_CLOSE_DIALOG            = u"IsAutoCloseDialog";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_SHOW_ENTRIES_RECENTLY_USED_FIRST = u"IsShowEntriesRecentlyUsedFirst";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_AUTO_REPLACE_UNIQUE_ENTRIES  = u"IsAutoReplaceUniqueEntries";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_DIRECTION_TO_SIMPLIFIED      = u"IsDirectionToSimplified";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_USE_CHARACTER_VARIANTS       = u"IsUseCharacterVariants";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_TRANSLATE_COMMON_TERMS       = u"IsTranslateCommonTerms";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_REVERSE_MAPPING              = u"IsReverseMapping";
+
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_GRAMMAR_AUTO                 = u"IsAutoGrammarCheck";
+inline constexpr OUStringLiteral UPN_IS_GRAMMAR_INTERACTIVE          = u"IsInteractiveGrammarCheck";
+
+// uno property handles
+#define UPH_IS_GERMAN_PRE_REFORM             0
+#define UPH_IS_USE_DICTIONARY_LIST           1
+#define UPH_IS_IGNORE_CONTROL_CHARACTERS     2
+#define UPH_IS_SPELL_UPPER_CASE              3
+#define UPH_IS_SPELL_WITH_DIGITS             4
+#define UPH_IS_SPELL_CAPITALIZATION          5
+#define UPH_HYPH_MIN_LEADING                 6
+#define UPH_HYPH_MIN_TRAILING                7
+#define UPH_HYPH_MIN_WORD_LENGTH             8
+#define UPH_DEFAULT_LOCALE                   9
+#define UPH_IS_SPELL_AUTO                   10
+#define UPH_IS_SPELL_HIDE                   11
+#define UPH_IS_SPELL_IN_ALL_LANGUAGES       12
+#define UPH_IS_SPELL_SPECIAL                13
+#define UPH_IS_HYPH_AUTO                    14
+#define UPH_IS_HYPH_SPECIAL                 15
+#define UPH_IS_WRAP_REVERSE                 16
+#define UPH_DATA_FILES_CHANGED_CHECK_VALUE  17
+#define UPH_DEFAULT_LANGUAGE                21
+#define UPH_DEFAULT_LOCALE_CJK              22
+#define UPH_DEFAULT_LOCALE_CTL              23
+#define UPH_ACTIVE_DICTIONARIES             24
+#define UPH_ACTIVE_CONVERSION_DICTIONARIES  25
+#define UPH_IS_IGNORE_POST_POSITIONAL_WORD  26
+#define UPH_IS_AUTO_CLOSE_DIALOG            27
+#define UPH_IS_SHOW_ENTRIES_RECENTLY_USED_FIRST     28
+#define UPH_IS_AUTO_REPLACE_UNIQUE_ENTRIES  29
+#define UPH_IS_DIRECTION_TO_SIMPLIFIED      30
+#define UPH_IS_USE_CHARACTER_VARIANTS       31
+#define UPH_IS_TRANSLATE_COMMON_TERMS       32
+#define UPH_IS_REVERSE_MAPPING              33
+#define UPH_IS_GRAMMAR_AUTO                 34
+#define UPH_IS_GRAMMAR_INTERACTIVE          35
+#define UPH_HYPH_NO_CAPS                    36
+#define UPH_HYPH_NO_LAST_WORD               37
+#define UPH_HYPH_ZONE                       38
+
+#ifdef __GNUC__
+#pragma GCC diagnostic pop
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/localedatawrapper.hxx b/include/unotools/localedatawrapper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5fbdcd078
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/localedatawrapper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,394 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_LOCALEDATAWRAPPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_LOCALEDATAWRAPPER_HXX
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/LocaleItem.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/LocaleDataItem2.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/LanguageCountryInfo.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/ForbiddenCharacters.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/reservedWords.hpp>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <rtl/math.h>
+#include <i18nlangtag/languagetag.hxx>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <memory>
+#include <string_view>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { class XLocaleData5; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { struct Calendar2; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { struct Currency2; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { struct FormatElement; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { struct CalendarItem2; }
+
+class Date;
+namespace tools { class Time; }
+class CalendarWrapper;
+
+enum class DateOrder {
+    Invalid = -1,
+    MDY = 0,
+    DMY,
+    YMD,
+};
+
+enum class LongDateOrder {
+    Invalid = -1,
+    MDY = 0,
+    DMY,
+    YMD,
+    YDM
+};
+
+enum class MeasurementSystem {
+    Metric,
+    US
+};
+
+/**
+ * This class can be accessed without locking because we load
+ * all of the data in the constructor.
+ */
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC LocaleDataWrapper
+{
+    static  sal_uInt8                nLocaleDataChecking;    // 0:=dontknow, 1:=yes, 2:=no
+
+    css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > m_xContext;
+    css::uno::Reference< css::i18n::XLocaleData5 >     xLD;
+    LanguageTag                                        maLanguageTag;
+    std::shared_ptr< css::i18n::Calendar2 >            xDefaultCalendar;
+    std::shared_ptr< css::i18n::Calendar2 >            xSecondaryCalendar;
+    css::i18n::LocaleDataItem2                         aLocaleDataItem;
+    css::uno::Sequence< OUString >                     aDateAcceptancePatterns;
+    css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int32 >                    aGrouping;
+    // cached items
+    OUString                aLocaleItem[css::i18n::LocaleItem::COUNT2];
+    std::vector<OUString>   aReservedWords;
+    OUString                aCurrSymbol;
+    OUString                aCurrBankSymbol;
+    DateOrder               nDateOrder;
+    LongDateOrder           nLongDateOrder;
+    sal_uInt16              nCurrPositiveFormat;
+    sal_uInt16              nCurrNegativeFormat;
+    sal_uInt16              nCurrDigits;
+
+    void                loadData();
+    void                loadDateAcceptancePatterns(const std::vector<OUString> & rOverrideDateAcceptancePatterns);
+
+    const OUString&     getOneLocaleItem( sal_Int16 nItem ) const;
+
+    const OUString&     getOneReservedWord( sal_Int16 nWord ) const;
+
+    void                loadCurrencyFormats();
+
+    void                scanCurrFormatImpl( std::u16string_view rCode,
+                            sal_Int32 nStart, sal_Int32& nSign,
+                            sal_Int32& nPar, sal_Int32& nNum,
+                            sal_Int32& nBlank, sal_Int32& nSym ) const;
+
+    void                loadDateOrders();
+    LongDateOrder       scanDateOrderImpl( std::u16string_view rCode ) const;
+
+    void                ImplAddFormatNum( rtl::OUStringBuffer& rBuf,
+                            sal_Int64 nNumber, sal_uInt16 nDecimals,
+                            bool bUseThousandSep, bool bTrailingZeros ) const;
+
+    void                loadDigitGrouping();
+
+public:
+    LocaleDataWrapper(
+        const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > & rxContext,
+        LanguageTag aLanguageTag
+        );
+    /**
+        @param rOverrideDateAcceptancePatterns Override locale's date acceptance patterns.
+            An empty sequence resets the patterns to the locale's pattern sequence.
+     */
+    LocaleDataWrapper(
+        LanguageTag aLanguageTag,
+        const std::vector<OUString> & rOverrideDateAcceptancePatterns = {}
+        );
+    ~LocaleDataWrapper();
+
+    /** Get the service factory, meant to be able to create a CalendarWrapper
+        from a LocaleDataWrapper. Note that the service factory may be
+        non-existent if this LocaleDataWrapper was created without one and
+        lives "on the grassland". The CalendarWrapper ctor can handle that
+        though. */
+    const css::uno::Reference<
+        css::uno::XComponentContext > & getComponentContext()
+        const { return m_xContext; }
+
+    /// get current requested Locale
+    const   LanguageTag&        getLanguageTag() const;
+
+    /// get current loaded Locale, which might differ from the requested Locale
+    LanguageTag                 getLoadedLanguageTag() const;
+
+    // Wrapper implementations of service LocaleData
+
+    css::i18n::LanguageCountryInfo getLanguageCountryInfo() const;
+    /// NOTE: this wraps XLocaleData5::getLocaleItem2() in fact.
+    const css::i18n::LocaleDataItem2& getLocaleItem() const;
+    /// NOTE: this wraps XLocaleData3::getAllCalendars2() in fact.
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::Calendar2 > getAllCalendars() const;
+    /// NOTE: this wraps XLocaleData2::getAllCurrencies2() in fact.
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::Currency2 > getAllCurrencies() const;
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::FormatElement > getAllFormats() const;
+    css::i18n::ForbiddenCharacters getForbiddenCharacters() const;
+    const css::uno::Sequence< css::lang::Locale > & getAllInstalledLocaleNames() const;
+    const css::uno::Sequence< OUString > & getDateAcceptancePatterns() const;
+
+
+    /// same as the wrapper implementation but static
+    static const css::uno::Sequence< css::lang::Locale > & getInstalledLocaleNames();
+
+    /** Get LanguageTypes for all installed locales which are unambiguous
+        convertible back and forth between locale ISO strings and MS-LCID
+        LanguageType. Upon the first time the function is called when
+        locale data checking is enabled, messages are shown for locales not
+        matching, excluding already known problems.
+        (e.g. used in number formatter dialog init)
+     */
+    static const std::vector< LanguageType > & getInstalledLanguageTypes();
+
+    /// maps the LocaleData string to the International enum
+    MeasurementSystem   mapMeasurementStringToEnum( std::u16string_view rMS ) const;
+
+    /// Convenience method to obtain the default calendar.
+    const std::shared_ptr< css::i18n::Calendar2 >& getDefaultCalendar() const;
+
+    /// Convenience method to obtain the day names of the default calendar.
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::CalendarItem2 > const & getDefaultCalendarDays() const;
+
+    /// Convenience method to obtain the month names of the default calendar.
+    css::uno::Sequence< css::i18n::CalendarItem2 > const & getDefaultCalendarMonths() const;
+
+    /** If the secondary calendar, if any, is of the name passed AND number
+        formats using it usually use the E or EE keyword (EC|EEC). */
+    bool doesSecondaryCalendarUseEC( std::u16string_view rName ) const;
+
+    /** Obtain digit grouping. The usually known grouping by thousands (#,###)
+        is actually only one of possible groupings. Another one, for example,
+        used in India is group by 3 and then by 2 indefinitely (#,##,###). The
+        integer sequence returned here specifies grouping from right to left
+        (!), with a 0 entry designating the end of rules and the previous value
+        to be repeated indefinitely. Hence the sequence {3,0} specifies the
+        usual grouping by thousands, whereas the sequence {3,2,0} specifies
+        Indian grouping. The sal_Int32* getConstArray() can be passed directly
+        to the ::rtl::math::doubleToString() methods as argument for the
+        pGroups parameter. */
+    const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int32 >& getDigitGrouping() const;
+
+    // Functionality of class International methods, LocaleItem
+
+    const OUString&       getDateSep() const
+                                    { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::DATE_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getNumThousandSep() const
+                                    { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::THOUSAND_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getNumDecimalSep() const
+                                    { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::DECIMAL_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getNumDecimalSepAlt() const
+                                    { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::DECIMAL_SEPARATOR_ALTERNATIVE ); }
+    const OUString&       getTimeSep() const
+                                    { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::TIME_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getTime100SecSep() const
+                                    { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::TIME_100SEC_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getListSep() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::LIST_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getQuotationMarkStart() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::SINGLE_QUOTATION_START ); }
+    const OUString&       getQuotationMarkEnd() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::SINGLE_QUOTATION_END ); }
+    const OUString&       getDoubleQuotationMarkStart() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::DOUBLE_QUOTATION_START ); }
+    const OUString&       getDoubleQuotationMarkEnd() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::DOUBLE_QUOTATION_END ); }
+    MeasurementSystem     getMeasurementSystemEnum() const
+                            { return mapMeasurementStringToEnum( getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::MEASUREMENT_SYSTEM ) ); }
+    const OUString&       getTimeAM() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::TIME_AM ); }
+    const OUString&       getTimePM() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::TIME_PM ); }
+    const OUString&       getLongDateDayOfWeekSep() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::LONG_DATE_DAY_OF_WEEK_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getLongDateDaySep() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::LONG_DATE_DAY_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getLongDateMonthSep() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::LONG_DATE_MONTH_SEPARATOR ); }
+    const OUString&       getLongDateYearSep() const
+                            { return getOneLocaleItem( css::i18n::LocaleItem::LONG_DATE_YEAR_SEPARATOR ); }
+
+    /** A wrapper around rtl::math::stringToDouble() using the locale dependent
+        decimal separator, group separator, and if needed decimal separator
+        alternative.
+
+        The decimal separator is tried first, if the conversion does not match
+        the entire string then the decimal separator alternative is tried if it
+        occurs in the string and was the reason to stop.
+
+        Leading blanks are skipped, trailing blanks are not skipped. The number
+        is parsed up to the first non-floating point number character, same as
+        rtl::math::stringToDouble() does. The caller is responsible for proper
+        error checking and end comparison.
+
+        @param  aString
+                The string to parse as floating point number.
+        @param  bUseGroupSep
+                Whether group separator is used/accepted during parsing.
+        @param  pStatus
+                Pointer to receive the conversion status as in
+                rtl::math::stringToDouble().
+        @param  pParseEnd
+                Pointer to receive the parse end (exclusive) as in
+                rtl::math::stringToDouble().
+        @return The floating point number as parsed.
+     */
+    double              stringToDouble( std::u16string_view aString, bool bUseGroupSep,
+                                        rtl_math_ConversionStatus* pStatus, sal_Int32* pParseEnd ) const;
+
+    /** A wrapper around rtl_math_uStringToDouble() using the locale dependent
+        decimal separator, group separator, and if needed decimal separator
+        alternative.
+
+        The decimal separator is tried first, if the conversion does not match
+        the entire string then the decimal separator alternative is tried if it
+        occurs in the string and was the reason to stop.
+
+        Leading blanks are skipped, trailing blanks are not skipped. The number
+        is parsed up to the first non-floating point number character, same as
+        rtl_math_uStringToDouble() does. The caller is responsible for proper
+        error checking and end comparison.
+
+        @param  pBegin
+                The string position to start parsing a floating point number.
+        @param  pEnd
+                The string position to stop parsing, exclusive.
+        @param  bUseGroupSep
+                Whether group separator is used/accepted during parsing.
+        @param  pStatus
+                Pointer to receive the conversion status as in
+                rtl_math_uStringToDouble().
+        @param  pParseEnd
+                Pointer to receive the parse end (exclusive) as in
+                rtl_math_uStringToDouble().
+        @return The floating point number as parsed.
+     */
+    double              stringToDouble( const sal_Unicode* pBegin, const sal_Unicode* pEnd, bool bUseGroupSep,
+                                        rtl_math_ConversionStatus* pStatus, const sal_Unicode** ppParseEnd ) const;
+
+    // currency
+    const OUString&    getCurrSymbol() const;
+    const OUString&    getCurrBankSymbol() const;
+    sal_uInt16              getCurrPositiveFormat() const;
+    sal_uInt16              getCurrNegativeFormat() const;
+    sal_uInt16              getCurrDigits() const;
+
+    // simple date and time formatting
+    DateOrder          getDateOrder() const;
+    LongDateOrder      getLongDateOrder() const;
+    /// only numerical values of Gregorian calendar
+    OUString       getDate( const Date& rDate ) const;
+    OUString       getTime( const tools::Time& rTime, bool bSec = true,
+                            bool b100Sec = false ) const;
+    OUString       getDuration( const tools::Time& rTime,
+                            bool bSec = true, bool b100Sec = false ) const;
+
+                        /** Simple number formatting
+                            @param nNumber
+                                value * 10**nDecimals
+                            @param bTrailingZeros
+                            </sal_True>  := always display trailing zeros in
+                                decimal places, even if integer value.
+                            </sal_False> := trailing zeros are only displayed
+                                if the value is not an integer value.
+                         */
+    OUString       getNum( sal_Int64 nNumber, sal_uInt16 nDecimals,
+                            bool bUseThousandSep = true,
+                            bool bTrailingZeros = true ) const;
+
+                        /// "Secure" currency formatted string.
+    OUString       getCurr( sal_Int64 nNumber, sal_uInt16 nDecimals,
+                            std::u16string_view rCurrencySymbol,
+                            bool bUseThousandSep = true ) const;
+
+    // dummy returns, to be implemented
+    sal_Unicode         getCurrZeroChar() const
+                                    { return '0'; }
+    static bool         isNumLeadingZero()
+                                    { return true; }
+                                /// standard decimal places
+    static sal_uInt16    getNumDigits()
+                                    { return 2; }
+    static bool         isNumTrailingZeros()
+                                    { return true; }
+
+    // reserved words
+
+    const OUString&        getTrueWord() const
+                                    { return getOneReservedWord( css::i18n::reservedWords::TRUE_WORD ); }
+    const OUString&        getFalseWord() const
+                                    { return getOneReservedWord( css::i18n::reservedWords::FALSE_WORD ); }
+    const OUString&        getAboveWord() const
+                                    { return getOneReservedWord( css::i18n::reservedWords::ABOVE_WORD ); }
+    const OUString&        getBelowWord() const
+                                    { return getOneReservedWord( css::i18n::reservedWords::BELOW_WORD ); }
+    /// return a quarter abbreviation string matching nQuarter (0..3) => "Q1" .. "Q2"
+    const OUString&        getQuarterAbbreviation( sal_Int16 nQuarter ) const
+                                    { return getOneReservedWord( css::i18n::reservedWords::QUARTER1_ABBREVIATION + nQuarter ); }
+
+    /** Return whether locale data checks are enabled.
+        Checks are enabled if the environment variable
+        OOO_ENABLE_LOCALE_DATA_CHECKS is set to 'Y' or 'Yes' (or any other
+        string starting with 'Y') or '1'.
+        Also used in conjunction with the number formatter. */
+    static  bool        areChecksEnabled()
+                                    {
+                                        if (nLocaleDataChecking == 0)
+                                            evaluateLocaleDataChecking();
+                                        return nLocaleDataChecking == 1;
+                                    }
+
+    /** Append locale info to string, used with locale data checking.
+        A string similar to "de_DE requested\n en_US loaded" is appended. */
+    OUString appendLocaleInfo(std::u16string_view rDebugMsg) const;
+
+    /** Output a message during locale data checking. The (UTF-8) string is
+        written to stderr and in a non-product build or if DBG_UTIL is enabled
+        also raised as an assertion message box. */
+    static  void                outputCheckMessage( std::u16string_view rMsg );
+    static  void                outputCheckMessage( const char* pStr);
+
+    LocaleDataWrapper(const LocaleDataWrapper&) = delete;
+    LocaleDataWrapper& operator=(const LocaleDataWrapper&) = delete;
+
+private:
+
+    const css::lang::Locale &  getMyLocale() const;
+
+    static  void                evaluateLocaleDataChecking();
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_LOCALEDATAWRAPPER_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/localfilehelper.hxx b/include/unotools/localfilehelper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e96b5a571
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/localfilehelper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,42 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_LOCALFILEHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_LOCALFILEHELPER_HXX
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC LocalFileHelper
+    {
+    public:
+        static          css::uno::Sequence< OUString >
+                                GetFolderContents( const OUString& rFolder, bool bFolder );
+    };
+
+    /// recursively remove directory and all contents
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void removeTree(OUString const & url);
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/mediadescriptor.hxx b/include/unotools/mediadescriptor.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..92728fa51
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/mediadescriptor.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,339 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_MEDIADESCRIPTOR_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_MEDIADESCRIPTOR_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <vector>
+
+#include <comphelper/docpasswordrequest.hxx>
+#include <comphelper/sequenceashashmap.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::io {
+    class XInputStream;
+}
+namespace comphelper { class IDocPasswordVerifier; }
+
+namespace utl {
+
+/** @short  can be used to work with a css::document::MediaDescriptor
+            struct.
+
+    @descr  It wraps an unordered_map around the Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >, which
+            represent the MediaDescriptor item.
+            Further this helper defines often used functions (as e.g. open of the required streams,
+            consistent checks etcpp.) and it defines all usable property names.
+
+    @attention  This class isn't threadsafe and must be guarded from outside!
+ */
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC MediaDescriptor : public comphelper::SequenceAsHashMap
+{
+    public:
+
+        /** @short  these methods can be used to get the different property names
+                    as static const OUString values.
+
+            @descr  Because definition and declaration of static const class members
+                    does not work as expected under windows (under unix it works as well)
+                    these way must be used :-(
+          */
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_ABORTED = u"Aborted";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_ASTEMPLATE = u"AsTemplate";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_COMPONENTDATA = u"ComponentData";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_DOCUMENTSERVICE = u"DocumentService";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_ENCRYPTIONDATA = u"EncryptionData";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_FILENAME = u"FileName";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_FILTERNAME = u"FilterName";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_FILTERPROVIDER = u"FilterProvider";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_FILTEROPTIONS = u"FilterOptions";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_FRAME = u"Frame";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_FRAMENAME = u"FrameName";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_HIDDEN = u"Hidden";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_INPUTSTREAM = u"InputStream";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_INTERACTIONHANDLER = u"InteractionHandler";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_AUTHENTICATIONHANDLER = u"AuthenticationHandler";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_JUMPMARK = u"JumpMark";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_MACROEXECUTIONMODE = u"MacroExecutionMode";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_MEDIATYPE = u"MediaType";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_MINIMIZED = u"Minimized";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_NOAUTOSAVE = u"NoAutoSave";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_OPENNEWVIEW = u"OpenNewView";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_OUTPUTSTREAM = u"OutputStream";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_PASSWORD = u"Password";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_POSTDATA = u"PostData";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_PREVIEW = u"Preview";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_READONLY = u"ReadOnly";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_REFERRER = u"Referer";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_REPLACEABLE = u"Replaceable";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_SALVAGEDFILE = u"SalvagedFile";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_STATUSINDICATOR = u"StatusIndicator";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_STREAM = u"Stream";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_STREAMFOROUTPUT = u"StreamForOutput";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_TEMPLATENAME = u"TemplateName";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_TITLE = u"Title";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_TYPENAME = u"TypeName";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_UCBCONTENT = u"UCBContent";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_UPDATEDOCMODE = u"UpdateDocMode";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_URL = u"URL";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_VERSION = u"Version";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_DOCUMENTTITLE = u"DocumentTitle";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_MODEL = u"Model";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_VIEWONLY = u"ViewOnly";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_DOCUMENTBASEURL = u"DocumentBaseURL";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_SUGGESTEDSAVEASNAME = u"SuggestedSaveAsName";
+        static constexpr OUStringLiteral PROP_AUTOSAVEEVENT = u"AutoSaveEvent";
+
+    // interface
+    public:
+
+        /** @short  these ctors do nothing - excepting that they forward
+                    the given parameters to the base class ctors.
+
+            @descr  The ctors must be overwritten to resolve conflicts with
+                    the default ctors of the compiler :-(.
+         */
+        MediaDescriptor();
+        MediaDescriptor(const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& lSource);
+
+        /** @short  it checks if the descriptor already has a valid
+                    InputStream item and creates a new one, if not.
+
+            @descr  This method uses the current items of this MediaDescriptor,
+                    to open the stream (as e.g. URL, ReadOnly, PostData etcpp.).
+                    It creates a seekable stream and put it into the descriptor.
+
+                    A might existing InteractionHandler will be used automatically,
+                    to solve problems!
+
+                    In case of local file the system file locking is used.
+
+            @return TRUE, if the stream was already part of the descriptor or could
+                    be created as new item. FALSE otherwise.
+         */
+        bool addInputStream();
+
+        /** @short  it checks if the descriptor already has a valid
+                    InputStream item and creates a new one, if not.
+
+            @descr  This method uses the current items of this MediaDescriptor,
+                    to open the stream (as e.g. URL, ReadOnly, PostData etcpp.).
+                    It creates a seekable stream and put it into the descriptor.
+
+                    A might existing InteractionHandler will be used automatically,
+                    to solve problems!
+
+                    In case of local file the system file locking is used based on
+                    configuration settings.
+
+            @return TRUE, if the stream was already part of the descriptor or could
+                    be created as new item. FALSE otherwise.
+         */
+        bool addInputStreamOwnLock();
+
+        /** @short  it checks if the descriptor describes a readonly stream.
+
+            @descr  The descriptor itself isn't changed doing so.
+                    It's only checked if the stream seems to be based
+                    of a real readonly file.
+
+            @Attention
+                    We don't check the property "ReadOnly" here. Because
+                    this property can be set from outside and overwrites
+                    the readonly state of  the stream.
+                    If e.g. the stream could be opened read/write ...
+                    but "ReadOnly" property is set to TRUE, this means:
+                    show a readonly UI on top of this read/write stream.
+
+            @return TRUE, if the stream must be interpreted as readonly ...
+                    FALSE otherwise.
+         */
+        bool isStreamReadOnly() const;
+
+        /** Returns a value from the sequence contained in the property
+            'ComponentData' of this media descriptor.
+
+            @descr  The property 'ComponentData' should be empty, or should
+                contain a value of type sequence<com.sun.star.beans.NamedValue>
+                or sequence<com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue>.
+
+            @return  The value with the specified name, if existing in the
+                sequence of the 'ComponentData' property, otherwise an empty
+                Any.
+         */
+        css::uno::Any getComponentDataEntry(
+            const OUString& rName ) const;
+
+        /** Inserts a value into the sequence contained in the property
+            'ComponentData' of the media descriptor.
+
+            @descr  The property 'ComponentData' should be empty, or should
+                contain a value of type sequence<com.sun.star.beans.NamedValue>
+                or sequence<com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue>. The passed value
+                will be inserted into the sequence, or, if already existing,
+                will be overwritten.
+
+            @param rName  The name of the value to be inserted into the
+                sequence of the 'ComponentData' property.
+
+            @param rValue  The value to be inserted into the sequence of the
+                'ComponentData' property.
+         */
+        void setComponentDataEntry(
+            const OUString& rName,
+            const css::uno::Any& rValue );
+
+        /** Removes a value from the sequence contained in the property
+            'ComponentData' of the media descriptor.
+
+            @descr  The property 'ComponentData' should be empty, or should
+                contain a value of type sequence<com.sun.star.beans.NamedValue>
+                or sequence<com.sun.star.beans.PropertyValue>. The value with
+                the passed name will be removed from the sequence, if existing.
+
+            @param rName  The name of the value to be removed from the sequence
+                of the 'ComponentData' property.
+         */
+        void clearComponentDataEntry(
+            const OUString& rName );
+
+        /** This helper function tries to find a password for the document
+            described by this media descriptor.
+
+            First, the list of default passwords will be tried if provided. This
+            is needed by import filters for external file formats that have to
+            check a predefined password in some cases without asking the user
+            for a password. Every password is checked using the passed password
+            verifier.
+
+            If not successful, this media descriptor is asked for a password,
+            that has been set e.g. by an API call to load a document. If
+            existing, the password is checked using the passed password
+            verifier.
+
+            If still not successful, the interaction handler contained in this
+            media descriptor is used to request a password from the user. This
+            will be repeated until the passed password verifier validates the
+            entered password, or if the user chooses to cancel password input.
+
+            If a valid password (that is not contained in the passed list of
+            default passwords) was found, it will be inserted into the
+            "Password" property of this descriptor.
+
+            @param rVerifier
+            The password verifier used to check every processed password.
+
+            @param eRequestType
+            The password request type that will be passed to the
+            DocPasswordRequest object created internally. See
+            docpasswordrequest.hxx for more details.
+
+            @param pDefaultPasswords
+            If not null, contains default passwords that will be tried before a
+            password will be requested from the media descriptor or the user.
+
+            @return
+            If not empty, contains the password that has been validated by the
+            passed password verifier. If empty, no valid password has been
+            found, or the user has chosen to cancel password input.
+        */
+        css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::NamedValue > requestAndVerifyDocPassword(
+            comphelper::IDocPasswordVerifier& rVerifier,
+            comphelper::DocPasswordRequestType eRequestType,
+            const ::std::vector< OUString >* pDefaultPasswords );
+
+    // helper
+    private:
+
+        /** @short  tries to open a stream by using the given PostData stream.
+
+            @descr  The stream is used directly ...
+
+                    The MediaDescriptor itself is changed inside this method.
+                    Means: the stream is added internal and not returned by a value.
+
+            @param  _rxPostData
+                    the PostData stream.
+
+            @return TRUE if the stream could be added successfully.
+                    Note: If FALSE is returned, the error was already handled inside!
+
+            @throw  [css::uno::RuntimeException]
+                    if the MediaDescriptor seems to be invalid!
+
+            @throw  [css::lang::IllegalArgumentException]
+                    if the given PostData stream is <NULL/>.
+         */
+        SAL_DLLPRIVATE bool impl_openStreamWithPostData(
+            const css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream >& _rxPostData
+            );
+
+        /** @short  tries to open a stream by using the given URL.
+
+            @descr  First it tries to open the content in r/w mode (if its
+                    allowed to do so). Only in case it's not allowed or it failed
+                    the stream will be tried to open in readonly mode.
+
+                    The MediaDescriptor itself is changed inside this method.
+                    Means: the stream is added internal and not returned by a value.
+
+            @param  sURL
+                    the URL for open.
+
+            @param  bLockFile
+                    specifies whether the file should be locked
+
+            @return TRUE if the stream could be added successfully.
+                    Note: If FALSE is returned, the error was already handled inside!
+
+            @throw  [css::uno::RuntimeException]
+                    if the MediaDescriptor seems to be invalid!
+         */
+        SAL_DLLPRIVATE bool impl_openStreamWithURL(
+            const OUString& sURL,
+            bool bLockFile
+            );
+
+        /** @short  it checks if the descriptor already has a valid
+                    InputStream item and creates a new one, if not.
+
+            @descr  This method uses the current items of this MediaDescriptor,
+                    to open the stream (as e.g. URL, ReadOnly, PostData etcpp.).
+                    It creates a seekable stream and put it into the descriptor.
+
+                    A might existing InteractionHandler will be used automatically,
+                    to solve problems!
+
+            @param  bLockFile
+                    specifies whether the file should be locked
+
+            @return TRUE, if the stream was already part of the descriptor or could
+                    be created as new item. FALSE otherwise.
+         */
+        SAL_DLLPRIVATE bool impl_addInputStream( bool bLockFile );
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/moduleoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/moduleoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8aa9860ce
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/moduleoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,176 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_MODULEOPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_MODULEOPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::frame { class XModel; }
+namespace com::sun::star::beans { struct PropertyValue; }
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          forward declaration to our private date container implementation
+    @descr          We use these class as internal member to support small memory requirements.
+                    You can create the container if it is necessary. The class which use these mechanism
+                    is faster and smaller then a complete implementation!
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+class SvtModuleOptions_Impl;
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          collect information about installation state of modules
+    @descr          Use these class to get installation state of different office modules like writer, calc etc
+                    Further you can ask for additional information; e.g. name of standard template file, which
+                    should be used by corresponding module; or short/long name of these module factory.
+    @devstatus      ready to use
+    @threadsafe     yes
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtModuleOptions final : public utl::detail::Options
+{
+    public:
+
+        enum class EModule
+        {
+            WRITER       = 0,
+            CALC         = 1,
+            DRAW         = 2,
+            IMPRESS      = 3,
+            MATH         = 4,
+            CHART        = 5,
+            STARTMODULE  = 6,
+            BASIC        = 7,
+            DATABASE     = 8,
+            WEB          = 9,
+            GLOBAL       = 10
+        };
+
+        /*ATTENTION:
+            If you change these enum ... don't forget to change reading/writing and order of configuration values too!
+            See "SvtModuleOptions_Impl::impl_GetSetNames()" and his ctor for further information.
+         */
+        enum class EFactory
+        {
+            UNKNOWN_FACTORY = -1,
+            WRITER        =  0,
+            WRITERWEB     =  1,
+            WRITERGLOBAL  =  2,
+            CALC          =  3,
+            DRAW          =  4,
+            IMPRESS       =  5,
+            MATH          =  6,
+            CHART         =  7,
+            STARTMODULE   =  8,
+            DATABASE      =  9,
+            BASIC         = 10,
+            LAST = BASIC
+        };
+
+    public:
+         SvtModuleOptions();
+        virtual ~SvtModuleOptions() override;
+
+        bool        IsModuleInstalled         (       EModule          eModule    ) const;
+        OUString GetModuleName             (       EModule          eModule    ) const;
+        const OUString & GetFactoryName    (       EFactory         eFactory   ) const;
+        OUString GetFactoryStandardTemplate(       EFactory         eFactory   ) const;
+        OUString GetFactoryEmptyDocumentURL(       EFactory         eFactory   ) const;
+        OUString GetFactoryDefaultFilter   (       EFactory         eFactory   ) const;
+        bool        IsDefaultFilterReadonly   (       EFactory         eFactory   ) const;
+        sal_Int32       GetFactoryIcon            (       EFactory         eFactory   ) const;
+        static bool ClassifyFactoryByName     ( std::u16string_view sName      ,
+                                                          EFactory&        eFactory   );
+        void            SetFactoryStandardTemplate(       EFactory         eFactory   ,
+                                                    const OUString& sTemplate  );
+        void            SetFactoryDefaultFilter   (       EFactory         eFactory   ,
+                                                    const OUString& sFilter    );
+
+        /** @short  return the corresponding application ID for the given
+                    document service name.
+         */
+        static EFactory ClassifyFactoryByServiceName(std::u16string_view sName);
+
+        /** @short  return the corresponding application ID for the given
+                    short name.
+         */
+        static EFactory ClassifyFactoryByShortName(std::u16string_view sName);
+
+        /** @short  return the corresponding application ID for the given properties.
+
+            @descr  Because this search base on filters currently (till we have a better solution)
+                    a result is not guaranteed every time. May a filter does not exists for the specified
+                    content (but a FrameLoader which is not bound to any application!) ... or
+                    the given properties describe a stream (and we make no deep detection inside here!).
+
+            @attention  The module BASIC can't be detected here. Because it does not
+                        has an own URL schema.
+
+            @param  sURL
+                    the complete URL!
+
+            @param  lMediaDescriptor
+                    additional information
+
+            @return A suitable enum value. See EFactory above.
+         */
+        static EFactory ClassifyFactoryByURL(const OUString&                                                           sURL            ,
+                                             const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::PropertyValue >& lMediaDescriptor);
+
+        /** @short  return the corresponding application ID for the given properties.
+
+            @descr  Here we try to use the list of supported service names of the given model
+                    to find out the right application module.
+
+            @attention  The module BASIC can't be detected here. Because it does not
+                        support any model/ctrl/view paradigm.
+
+            @param  xModel
+                    the document model
+
+            @return A suitable enum value. See EFactory above.
+         */
+        static EFactory ClassifyFactoryByModel(const css::uno::Reference< css::frame::XModel >& xModel);
+
+        static OUString GetFactoryShortName(EFactory eFactory);
+
+        OUString GetDefaultModuleName() const;
+
+        bool   IsMath     () const;
+        bool   IsChart    () const;
+        bool   IsCalc     () const;
+        bool   IsDraw     () const;
+        bool   IsWriter   () const;
+        bool   IsImpress  () const;
+        static bool   IsBasicIDE () { return true; }
+        bool   IsDataBase () const;
+
+        css::uno::Sequence < OUString > GetAllServiceNames();
+
+    private:
+        std::shared_ptr<SvtModuleOptions_Impl>   m_pImpl;
+
+};      // class SvtModuleOptions
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_MODULEOPTIONS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/nativenumberwrapper.hxx b/include/unotools/nativenumberwrapper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9f632f1f6
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/nativenumberwrapper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,68 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_NATIVENUMBERWRAPPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_NATIVENUMBERWRAPPER_HXX
+
+#include <config_options.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/i18n/NativeNumberXmlAttributes.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { class XNativeNumberSupplier2; }
+
+class UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) NativeNumberWrapper
+{
+    css::uno::Reference< css::i18n::XNativeNumberSupplier2 >   xNNS;
+                                NativeNumberWrapper( const NativeNumberWrapper& ) = delete;
+            NativeNumberWrapper&    operator=( const NativeNumberWrapper& ) = delete;
+
+public:
+                                NativeNumberWrapper(
+                                    const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > & rxContext
+                                    );
+
+                                ~NativeNumberWrapper();
+
+    // Wrapper implementations of XNativeNumberSupplier
+
+    OUString getNativeNumberString(
+                        const OUString& rNumberString,
+                        const css::lang::Locale& rLocale,
+                        sal_Int16 nNativeNumberMode) const;
+
+    OUString getNativeNumberStringParams(
+                        const OUString& rNumberString,
+                        const css::lang::Locale& rLocale,
+                        sal_Int16 nNativeNumberMode,
+                        const OUString& rNativeNumberParams) const;
+
+    css::i18n::NativeNumberXmlAttributes convertToXmlAttributes(
+                        const css::lang::Locale& rLocale,
+                        sal_Int16 nNativeNumberMode ) const;
+
+    sal_Int16       convertFromXmlAttributes(
+                        const css::i18n::NativeNumberXmlAttributes& rAttr ) const;
+
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_NATIVENUMBERWRAPPER_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/options.hxx b/include/unotools/options.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e0206ace
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/options.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_OPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_OPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <o3tl/typed_flags_set.hxx>
+#include <vector>
+#include <memory>
+
+// bits for broadcasting hints of changes in ConfigurationListener::ConfigurationChanged, may be combined
+enum class ConfigurationHints {
+    NONE               = 0x0000,
+    Locale             = 0x0001,
+    Currency           = 0x0002,
+    UiLocale           = 0x0004,
+    DecSep             = 0x0008,
+    DatePatterns       = 0x0010,
+    IgnoreLang         = 0x0020,
+    CtlSettingsChanged = 0x2000,
+};
+namespace o3tl {
+    template<> struct typed_flags<ConfigurationHints> : is_typed_flags<ConfigurationHints, 0x203f> {};
+}
+
+/*
+    The class utl::detail::Options provides a kind of multiplexer. It implements a ConfigurationListener
+    that is usually registered at a ConfigItem class. At the same time it implements a ConfigurationBroadcaster
+    that allows further ("external") listeners to register.
+    Once the class deriving from Options is notified about
+    configuration changes by the ConfigItem if its content has been changed by calling some of its methods,
+    a call of the Options::NotifyListeners() method will send out notifications to all external listeners.
+*/
+
+namespace utl {
+
+    class ConfigurationBroadcaster;
+
+    // interface for configuration listener
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC ConfigurationListener
+    {
+    public:
+        virtual ~ConfigurationListener();
+
+        virtual void ConfigurationChanged( ConfigurationBroadcaster* p, ConfigurationHints nHint ) = 0;
+    };
+    typedef ::std::vector< ConfigurationListener* > IMPL_ConfigurationListenerList;
+
+    // complete broadcasting implementation
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC ConfigurationBroadcaster
+    {
+        std::unique_ptr<IMPL_ConfigurationListenerList> mpList;
+        sal_Int32               m_nBroadcastBlocked;     // broadcast only if this is 0
+        ConfigurationHints      m_nBlockedHint;
+
+    public:
+        void AddListener( utl::ConfigurationListener* pListener );
+        void RemoveListener( utl::ConfigurationListener const * pListener );
+
+        // notify listeners; nHint is an implementation detail of the particular class deriving from ConfigurationBroadcaster
+        void NotifyListeners( ConfigurationHints nHint );
+        ConfigurationBroadcaster();
+        ConfigurationBroadcaster(ConfigurationBroadcaster const & );
+        virtual ~ConfigurationBroadcaster();
+        ConfigurationBroadcaster & operator =(ConfigurationBroadcaster const & other);
+        virtual void BlockBroadcasts( bool bBlock );
+    };
+
+namespace detail {
+
+// A base class for the various option classes supported by
+// unotools/source/config/itemholderbase.hxx (which must be public, as it is
+// shared between unotools, svl and svt)
+// It also provides an implementation for a Configuration Listener and inherits a broadcaster implementation
+
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC Options
+    : public utl::ConfigurationBroadcaster, public utl::ConfigurationListener
+{
+public:
+    Options();
+
+    virtual ~Options() override = 0;
+
+private:
+    Options(Options const &) = delete;
+    Options& operator =(Options const &) = delete;
+
+protected:
+    virtual void ConfigurationChanged( ::utl::ConfigurationBroadcaster* p, ConfigurationHints nHint ) override;
+};
+
+} }
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/optionsdlg.hxx b/include/unotools/optionsdlg.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4e0d78245
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/optionsdlg.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,48 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <unordered_map>
+#include <string_view>
+
+// Loads the dialog options from config
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtOptionsDialogOptions
+{
+public:
+
+    typedef std::unordered_map< OUString, bool > OptionNodeList;
+
+    SvtOptionsDialogOptions();
+
+    bool        IsGroupHidden   (   std::u16string_view _rGroup ) const;
+    bool        IsPageHidden    (   std::u16string_view _rPage,
+                                        std::u16string_view _rGroup ) const;
+    bool        IsOptionHidden  (   std::u16string_view _rOption,
+                                        std::u16string_view _rPage,
+                                        std::u16string_view _rGroup ) const;
+private:
+    bool IsHidden( const OUString& _rPath ) const;
+
+    OptionNodeList m_aOptionNodeList;
+};
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/pathoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/pathoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6388a54bc
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/pathoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,137 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_PATHOPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_PATHOPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+
+#define SVT_SEARCHPATH_DELIMITER      ';'
+
+class SvtPathOptions_Impl;
+
+/*! Handle various defined paths
+
+  All path functions return URLs!
+*/
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtPathOptions final : public utl::detail::Options
+{
+private:
+    std::shared_ptr<SvtPathOptions_Impl>    pImpl;
+
+public:
+
+    enum class Paths : sal_uInt16
+    {
+        AddIn,
+        AutoCorrect,
+        AutoText,
+        Backup,
+        Basic,
+        Bitmap,
+        Config,
+        Dictionary,
+        Favorites,
+        Filter,
+        Gallery,
+        Graphic,
+        Help,
+        IconSet,
+        Linguistic,
+        Module,
+        Palette,
+        Plugin,
+        Storage,
+        Temp,
+        Template,
+        UserConfig,
+        Work,
+        Classification,
+        UIConfig,
+        Fingerprint,
+        NumberText,
+        LAST // should always be the last element
+    };
+
+
+    SvtPathOptions();
+    virtual ~SvtPathOptions() override;
+
+    // get the paths, not const because of using a mutex
+    const OUString& GetAddinPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetAutoCorrectPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetAutoTextPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetBackupPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetBasicPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetBitmapPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetConfigPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetDictionaryPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetFavoritesPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetFilterPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetGalleryPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetGraphicPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetHelpPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetLinguisticPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetModulePath() const;
+    const OUString& GetIconsetPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetPalettePath() const;
+    const OUString& GetPluginPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetStoragePath() const;
+    const OUString& GetTempPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetTemplatePath() const;
+    const OUString& GetUserConfigPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetWorkPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetFingerprintPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetNumbertextPath() const;
+    const OUString& GetClassificationPath() const;
+
+    // set the paths
+    void            SetAddinPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetAutoCorrectPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetAutoTextPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetBackupPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetBasicPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetBitmapPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetConfigPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetDictionaryPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetFavoritesPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetFilterPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetGalleryPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetGraphicPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetHelpPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetLinguisticPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetModulePath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetPalettePath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetPluginPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetStoragePath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetTempPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetTemplatePath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetUserConfigPath( const OUString& rPath );
+    void            SetWorkPath( const OUString& rPath );
+
+    OUString        SubstituteVariable( const OUString& rVar ) const;
+    OUString        ExpandMacros( const OUString& rPath ) const;
+    OUString        UseVariable( const OUString& rVar ) const;
+    bool            SearchFile( OUString& rIniFile, Paths ePath = Paths::UserConfig );
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_PATHOPTIONS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/progresshandlerwrap.hxx b/include/unotools/progresshandlerwrap.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4fcfd36da
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/progresshandlerwrap.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,53 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_PROGRESSHANDLERWRAP_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_PROGRESSHANDLERWRAP_HXX
+
+#include <config_options.h>
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/ucb/XProgressHandler.hpp>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::task
+{
+class XStatusIndicator;
+}
+
+namespace utl
+{
+class UNLESS_MERGELIBS(UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC) ProgressHandlerWrap final
+    : public ::cppu::WeakImplHelper<css::ucb::XProgressHandler>
+{
+    css::uno::Reference<css::task::XStatusIndicator> m_xStatusIndicator;
+
+public:
+    ProgressHandlerWrap(css::uno::Reference<css::task::XStatusIndicator> xSI);
+
+    // XProgressHandler
+    virtual void SAL_CALL push(const css::uno::Any& Status) override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL update(const css::uno::Any& Status) override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL pop() override;
+};
+
+} // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_PROGRESSHANDLERWRAP_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/resmgr.hxx b/include/unotools/resmgr.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..142ec2de5
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/resmgr.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,76 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_RESMGR_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_RESMGR_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <unotools/syslocale.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <string_view>
+
+class LanguageTag;
+
+typedef OUString (*ResHookProc)(const OUString& rStr);
+
+struct UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC TranslateId
+{
+    const char* mpContext;
+    const char* mpId;
+
+    inline constexpr TranslateId()
+        : mpContext(nullptr), mpId(nullptr) {}
+    inline constexpr TranslateId(const char* pContext, const char* pId)
+        : mpContext(pContext), mpId(pId) {}
+
+    inline operator bool() const { return mpId != nullptr; }
+
+    bool operator==(const TranslateId& other) const;
+    inline bool operator!=(const TranslateId& other) const { return !operator==(other); }
+};
+
+struct UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC TranslateNId
+{
+    const char* mpContext;
+    const char* mpSingular;
+    const char* mpPlural;
+
+    inline TranslateNId()
+        : mpContext(nullptr), mpSingular(nullptr), mpPlural(nullptr) {}
+    inline TranslateNId(const char* pContext, const char* pSingular, const char* pPlural)
+        : mpContext(pContext), mpSingular(pSingular), mpPlural(pPlural) {}
+
+    inline operator bool() const { return mpContext != nullptr; }
+
+    bool operator==(const TranslateNId& other) const;
+    inline bool operator!=(const TranslateNId& other) const { return !operator==(other); }
+};
+
+namespace Translate
+{
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC std::locale Create(std::string_view aPrefixName, const LanguageTag& rLocale = SvtSysLocale().GetUILanguageTag());
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString get(TranslateId sContextAndId, const std::locale &loc);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString nget(TranslateNId aContextSingularPlural, int n, const std::locale &loc);
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void SetReadStringHook( ResHookProc pProc );
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC ResHookProc GetReadStringHook();
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OUString ExpandVariables(const OUString& rString);
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/saveopt.hxx b/include/unotools/saveopt.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..9cd636761
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/saveopt.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,82 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_SAVEOPT_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_SAVEOPT_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace comphelper { class ConfigurationChanges; }
+
+namespace SvtSaveOptions
+{
+    /** Keep enum values sorted that a less or greater compare maps to older
+        and newer versions.
+        Do not change values, they are stored in the configuration.
+        ODFVER_LATEST designates the "current greatest and latest".
+        When adding a new value or ODFVER_LATEST designates a new real version
+        (plus extensions) adjust the mapping in
+        SvtSaveOptions::GetODFSaneDefaultVersion().
+     */
+    enum ODFDefaultVersion
+    {
+        ODFVER_UNKNOWN = 0, // unknown - very dubious, avoid using
+        ODFVER_010 = 1,         // ODF 1.0
+        ODFVER_011 = 2,         // ODF 1.1
+        DO_NOT_USE = 3,         // Do not use this, only here for compatibility with pre OOo 3.2 configuration
+        ODFVER_012 = 4,         // ODF 1.2
+        ODFVER_012_EXT_COMPAT = 8, // ODF 1.2 extended, but with compatibility fallbacks
+        ODFVER_012_EXTENDED = 9, // ODF 1.2 extended
+        ODFVER_013 = 10,        // ODF 1.3
+
+        ODFVER_LATEST = SAL_MAX_ENUM,      // ODF latest version with enhancements
+    };
+
+    /// Enums that allow a sane comparison of versions, without LATEST.
+    enum ODFSaneDefaultVersion
+    {
+        ODFSVER_EXTENDED = 1,       ///< bit designating extensions are allowed
+        ODFSVER_010 = 2,            ///< ODF 1.0
+        ODFSVER_011 = 4,            ///< ODF 1.1
+        ODFSVER_012 = 6,            ///< ODF 1.2
+        ODFSVER_012_EXT_COMPAT = 9, ///< ODF 1.2 extended, but with compatibility fallbacks
+        ODFSVER_012_EXTENDED = 11,  ///< ODF 1.2 extended
+        ODFSVER_013 = 12,           ///< ODF 1.3
+        ODFSVER_013_EXTENDED = 13,  ///< ODF 1.3 extended
+        ODFSVER_FUTURE_EXTENDED = 1000 | ODFSVER_EXTENDED, ///< current extension, unknown future ODF version
+
+        // The latest defined standard. Adapt when a new one is published.
+        ODFSVER_LATEST = ODFSVER_013,                   ///< @internal DO NOT USE in comparisons
+        ODFSVER_LATEST_EXTENDED = ODFSVER_013_EXTENDED  ///< @internal DO NOT USE in comparisons
+    };
+
+};
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void SetODFDefaultVersion( SvtSaveOptions::ODFDefaultVersion eVersion );
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void SetODFDefaultVersion( SvtSaveOptions::ODFDefaultVersion eVersion, const std::shared_ptr<comphelper::ConfigurationChanges>& );
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtSaveOptions::ODFDefaultVersion       GetODFDefaultVersion();
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtSaveOptions::ODFSaneDefaultVersion   GetODFSaneDefaultVersion();
+
+/** gets a sane default from the currently configured default */
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtSaveOptions::ODFSaneDefaultVersion  GetODFSaneDefaultVersion(SvtSaveOptions::ODFDefaultVersion eDefaultVersion);
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/searchopt.hxx b/include/unotools/searchopt.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..6b4321909
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/searchopt.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,114 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_SEARCHOPT_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_SEARCHOPT_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <memory>
+
+class SvtSearchOptions_Impl;
+enum class TransliterationFlags;
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtSearchOptions
+{
+    std::unique_ptr<SvtSearchOptions_Impl>  pImpl;
+
+    SvtSearchOptions( const SvtSearchOptions & ) = delete;
+    SvtSearchOptions & operator = ( const SvtSearchOptions & ) = delete;
+
+public:
+    SvtSearchOptions();
+    ~SvtSearchOptions();
+
+    void Commit();
+
+    TransliterationFlags GetTransliterationFlags() const;
+
+    // General Options
+
+    bool    IsWholeWordsOnly() const;
+    bool    IsBackwards() const;
+    bool    IsUseRegularExpression() const;
+    bool    IsUseWildcard() const;
+    bool    IsSimilaritySearch() const;
+    bool    IsUseAsianOptions() const;
+    bool    IsMatchCase() const;            // also Japanese search option
+    bool    IsSearchFormatted() const;
+    bool    IsNotes() const;
+
+    void    SetWholeWordsOnly( bool bVal );
+    void    SetBackwards( bool bVal );
+    void    SetUseRegularExpression( bool bVal );
+    void    SetUseWildcard( bool bVal );
+    void    SetSearchForStyles( bool bVal );
+    void    SetSimilaritySearch( bool bVal );
+    void    SetUseAsianOptions( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchCase( bool bVal );      // also Japanese search option
+    void    SetSearchFormatted( bool bVal );
+    void    SetNotes( bool bVal);
+
+    // Japanese search options
+
+    bool    IsMatchFullHalfWidthForms() const;
+    bool    IsMatchHiraganaKatakana() const;
+    bool    IsMatchContractions() const;
+    bool    IsMatchMinusDashChoon() const;
+    bool    IsMatchRepeatCharMarks() const;
+    bool    IsMatchVariantFormKanji() const;
+    bool    IsMatchOldKanaForms() const;
+    bool    IsMatchDiziDuzu() const;
+    bool    IsMatchBavaHafa() const;
+    bool    IsMatchTsithichiDhizi() const;
+    bool    IsMatchHyuiyuByuvyu() const;
+    bool    IsMatchSesheZeje() const;
+    bool    IsMatchIaiya() const;
+    bool    IsMatchKiku() const;
+    bool    IsIgnorePunctuation() const;
+    bool    IsIgnoreWhitespace() const;
+    bool    IsIgnoreProlongedSoundMark() const;
+    bool    IsIgnoreMiddleDot() const;
+    bool    IsIgnoreDiacritics_CTL() const;
+    bool    IsIgnoreKashida_CTL() const;
+
+    void    SetMatchFullHalfWidthForms( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchHiraganaKatakana( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchContractions( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchMinusDashChoon( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchRepeatCharMarks( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchVariantFormKanji( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchOldKanaForms( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchDiziDuzu( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchBavaHafa( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchTsithichiDhizi( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchHyuiyuByuvyu( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchSesheZeje( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchIaiya( bool bVal );
+    void    SetMatchKiku( bool bVal );
+    void    SetIgnorePunctuation( bool bVal );
+    void    SetIgnoreWhitespace( bool bVal );
+    void    SetIgnoreProlongedSoundMark( bool bVal );
+    void    SetIgnoreMiddleDot( bool bVal );
+    void    SetIgnoreDiacritics_CTL( bool bVal );
+    void    SetIgnoreKashida_CTL( bool bVal );
+};
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/securityoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/securityoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..0cae239c1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/securityoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,157 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <vector>
+#include <unordered_map>
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          collect information about security features
+    @ATTENTION      This class is partially threadsafe.
+
+    @devstatus      ready to use
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+
+namespace SvtSecurityOptions
+{
+    enum class EOption
+    {
+        SecureUrls,
+        DocWarnSaveOrSend,
+        DocWarnSigning,
+        DocWarnPrint,
+        DocWarnCreatePdf,
+        DocWarnRemovePersonalInfo,
+        DocWarnRecommendPassword,
+        MacroSecLevel,
+        MacroTrustedAuthors,
+        CtrlClickHyperlink,
+        BlockUntrustedRefererLinks
+    };
+
+    struct Certificate
+    {
+        OUString SubjectName;
+        OUString SerialNumber;
+        OUString RawData;
+
+        bool operator==(const Certificate& other) const
+        {
+            return SubjectName == other.SubjectName && SerialNumber == other.SerialNumber && RawData == other.RawData;
+        }
+    };
+
+
+    /*-****************************************************************************************************
+        @short      returns readonly state
+        @descr      It can be called to get information about the readonly state of a provided item.
+        @param      "eOption", specify, which item is queried
+        @return     <TRUE/> if item is readonly; <FALSE/> otherwise
+
+        @onerror    No error should occur!
+    *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool IsReadOnly( EOption eOption );
+
+    /*-****************************************************************************************************
+        @short      interface methods to get and set value of config key "org.openoffice.Office.Common/Security/Scripting/SecureURL"
+        @descr      These value displays the list of all trustworthy URLs.
+                    zB.:    file:/                  => All scripts from the local file system including a LAN;
+                            private:explorer        => Scripts from the Explorer;
+                            private:help            => Scripts in the help system;
+                            private:newmenu         => Scripts that are executed by the commands File-New and AutoPilot;
+                            private:schedule        => Scripts of  the scheduler;
+                            private:searchfolder    => Scripts of the searchfolder;
+                            private:user            => Scripts that are entered in the URL field.
+        @param      "seqURLList", new values to set it in configuration.
+        @return     The values which represent current state of internal variable.
+
+        @onerror    No error should occur!
+    *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC std::vector< OUString >  GetSecureURLs();
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void SetSecureURLs( std::vector< OUString >&& seqURLList );
+
+    /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      interface methods to get and set value of config key "org.openoffice.Office.Common/Security/Scripting/StarOfficeBasic"
+            @descr      These value determines how StarOffice Basic scripts should be handled.
+                        It exist 3 different modes:
+                            0 = never execute
+                            1 = from list
+                            2 = always execute
+
+            @ATTENTION  These methods don't check for valid or invalid values!
+                        Our configuration server can do it ... but these implementation don't get any notifications
+                        about wrong commits ...!
+                        => If you set an invalid value - nothing will be changed. The information will lost.
+
+            @seealso    enum EBasicSecurityMode
+
+            @param      "eMode" to set new mode ... Value must defined as an enum of type EBasicSecurityMode!
+            @return     An enum value, which present current mode.
+
+            @onerror    No error should occur!
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC sal_Int32 GetMacroSecurityLevel();
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void SetMacroSecurityLevel( sal_Int32 _nLevel );
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool IsMacroDisabled();
+
+    /**
+       Check whether the given uri is either no dangerous macro-execution
+       URI at all or else the given referer is a trusted source.
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool isSecureMacroUri(OUString const & uri, OUString const & referer);
+
+    /**
+       Check whether the given referer URI is untrusted, and links
+       originating from it should not be accessed.
+     */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool isUntrustedReferer(OUString const & referer);
+
+    /**
+       Check whether the given uri is a trusted location.
+    */
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool isTrustedLocationUri(OUString const & uri);
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool isTrustedLocationUriForUpdatingLinks(OUString const & uri);
+
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC std::vector< Certificate > GetTrustedAuthors();
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void SetTrustedAuthors( const std::vector< Certificate >& rAuthors );
+
+    // for bool options only!
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool        IsOptionSet     ( EOption eOption                   );
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC void        SetOption       ( EOption eOption, bool bValue      );
+
+} // namespace SvtSecurityOptions
+
+// map personal info strings, e.g. authors to 1, 2, 3... for removing personal info
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtSecurityMapPersonalInfo
+{
+    std::unordered_map< OUString, size_t > aInfoIDs;
+public:
+    size_t GetInfoID( const OUString sPersonalInfo );
+};
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/sharedunocomponent.hxx b/include/unotools/sharedunocomponent.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..8acc64b1f
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/sharedunocomponent.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,269 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_SHAREDUNOCOMPONENT_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_SHAREDUNOCOMPONENT_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ref.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace com::sun::star {
+    namespace lang {
+        class XComponent;
+    }
+}
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+    //= DisposableComponent
+
+    /** is a class which controls lifetime of a UNO component via ->XComponent::dispose
+
+        You'll usually never use this class directly, but only as parameter for a
+        ->SharedUNOComponent class.
+    */
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC DisposableComponent
+    {
+        css::uno::Reference< css::lang::XComponent >  m_xComponent;
+
+    public:
+        /** constructs a ->DisposableComponent instance
+
+        @param _rxComponent
+            the component whose life time should be controlled by the instance. Must not be <NULL/>.
+        */
+        DisposableComponent( const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >& _rxComponent );
+
+        /** disposes the component represented by the instance
+
+            The component is queried for ->XComponent(which <em>must</em> be supported),
+            and ->XComponent::dispose is invoked. A failure of this invocation (e.g. a thrown
+            exception) is silenced in release builds, and reported in debug builds.
+        */
+        ~DisposableComponent();
+
+    private:
+        DisposableComponent( const DisposableComponent& ) = delete;
+        DisposableComponent& operator=( const DisposableComponent& ) = delete;
+    };
+
+    //= CloseableComponent
+
+    class CloseableComponentImpl;
+    /** is a class which controls lifetime of a UNO component via ->XCloseable::close
+
+        You'll usually never use this class directly, but only as parameter for a
+        ->SharedUNOComponent class.
+    */
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC CloseableComponent
+    {
+    private:
+        /** Our IMPL class.
+        */
+        ::rtl::Reference< CloseableComponentImpl >  m_pImpl;
+
+    public:
+        /** constructs a ->CloseableComponent instance
+
+        @param _rxComponent
+            the component whose life time should be controlled by the instance. Must not be <NULL/>.
+        */
+        CloseableComponent( const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface >& _rxComponent );
+
+        /** destroys resources associated with this instance, and disposes the component
+
+            The component is queried for ->XCloseable (which <em>must</em> be supported),
+            and ->XCloseable::close is invoked, with delivering the ownership.
+            If the invocation fails with a ->CloseVetoException, this is ignored, since in
+            this case the vetoing instance took the ownership.
+
+            Any other failure will be reported in a debug version via assertion mechanisms,
+            and silenced in release builds.
+        */
+        ~CloseableComponent();
+
+    private:
+        CloseableComponent( const CloseableComponent& ) = delete;
+        CloseableComponent& operator=( const CloseableComponent& ) = delete;
+    };
+
+    //= SharedUNOComponent
+
+    /** is a helper class for sharing ownership of a UNO component
+
+        If you need to share a UNO component, which normally needs a dedicated owner,
+        and is lifetime controlled by an explicit disposal action (not necessarily ->XComponent::dispose,
+        but <em>any</em> explicit method call, after which the object is considered
+        to be disposed), between different classes, ->SharedUNOComponent is what you need.
+
+        Instead of passing around a <code>Reference&lt; XFoo &gt;</code>, and bothering
+        with ownership and disposal, you just use a <code>SharedUNOComponent&lt; XFoo &gt;</code>.
+        This instance can be passed around, including copying, and in nearly all respects behaves
+        like the original <code>Reference&lt; XFoo &gt;</code>. However, when the last
+        ->SharedUNOComponent referencing a certain <code>Reference&lt; XFoo &gt;</code> dies, it
+        will automatically get rid of the object held by this reference.
+
+    @param INTERFACE
+        the UNO interface type as which the component should be held
+
+    @param COMPONENT_HOLDER
+        a class which can be used to represent and dispose a UNO component.
+        The class must support (maybe explicit only) construction from a
+        <code>Reference&lt; INTERFACE &gt;</code>, and destruction. Upon destruction,
+        the class must dispose (by any suitable means) the component instance it was
+        constructed with.
+    */
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT = DisposableComponent >
+    class SharedUNOComponent
+    {
+    private:
+        typedef COMPONENT                           Component;
+
+    private:
+        std::shared_ptr<Component>                            m_xComponent;
+        css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >            m_xTypedComponent;
+
+    public:
+        enum AssignmentMode
+        {
+            TakeOwnership,
+            NoTakeOwnership
+        };
+
+    public:
+        SharedUNOComponent()
+        {
+        }
+
+        explicit SharedUNOComponent( const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& _rxComponent, AssignmentMode eMode = TakeOwnership )
+        {
+            reset( _rxComponent, eMode );
+        }
+
+        SharedUNOComponent( const css::uno::BaseReference & _rRef, css::uno::UnoReference_QueryThrow _queryThrow )
+        {
+            set( _rRef, _queryThrow );
+        }
+
+//        SharedUNOComponent& operator=( const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& _rxComponent );
+        // This operator is intentionally not implemented. There is no canonic ownership after this operator
+        // would have been applied: Should the SharedUNOComponent have the ownership of the component,
+        // or shouldn't it? Hard to guess, and probably wrong in 50 percent of all cases, anyway. So,
+        // instead of tempting clients of this class to use such a dangerous operator, we do
+        // not offer it at all. If you need to assign a Reference< INTERFACE > to your SharedUNOComponent,
+        // use the ->reset method.
+
+        /** assigns a new component, and releases the old one
+        */
+        void reset( const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& _rxComponent, AssignmentMode _eMode = TakeOwnership );
+
+        inline bool set( const css::uno::BaseReference& _rRef, css::uno::UnoReference_Query _query );
+
+        inline void set( const css::uno::BaseReference & _rRef, css::uno::UnoReference_QueryThrow _queryThrow );
+
+        inline void set( const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& _rRef, css::uno::UnoReference_SetThrow _setThrow );
+        inline void set( const SharedUNOComponent& _rComp, css::uno::UnoReference_SetThrow _setThrow );
+
+        INTERFACE* SAL_CALL operator->() const;
+
+        operator const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >&() const
+        {
+            return m_xTypedComponent;
+        }
+
+        const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& getTyped() const
+        {
+            return m_xTypedComponent;
+        }
+
+        bool is() const
+        {
+            return m_xTypedComponent.is();
+        }
+
+        void clear()
+        {
+            m_xComponent.reset();
+            m_xTypedComponent.clear();
+        }
+    };
+
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    INTERFACE* SAL_CALL SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >::operator->() const
+    {
+        return m_xTypedComponent.operator->();
+    }
+
+    // assignments
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    void SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >::reset( const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& _rxComponent, AssignmentMode _eMode )
+    {
+        m_xComponent.reset(_eMode == TakeOwnership ? new COMPONENT( _rxComponent ) : nullptr);
+        m_xTypedComponent = _rxComponent;
+    }
+
+    // comparison operators
+
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    bool operator==( const SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >& _rLHS, const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& _rRHS )
+    {
+        return _rLHS.getTyped() == _rRHS;
+    }
+
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    inline css::uno::Any SAL_CALL makeAny( const SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >& value )
+    {
+        return css::uno::Any( value.getTyped() );
+    }
+
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    void SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >::set( const css::uno::BaseReference & _rRef, css::uno::UnoReference_QueryThrow _queryThrow )
+    {
+        reset( css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >( _rRef, _queryThrow ), TakeOwnership );
+    }
+
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    void SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >::set( const css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >& _rRef, css::uno::UnoReference_SetThrow _setThrow )
+    {
+        reset( css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >( _rRef, _setThrow ), TakeOwnership );
+    }
+
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    void SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >::set( const SharedUNOComponent& _rComp, css::uno::UnoReference_SetThrow _setThrow )
+    {
+        *this = _rComp;
+        // provoke an exception in case the component is NULL
+        m_xTypedComponent.set( m_xTypedComponent, _setThrow );
+    }
+
+    template < class INTERFACE, class COMPONENT >
+    bool SharedUNOComponent< INTERFACE, COMPONENT >::set( const css::uno::BaseReference& _rRef, css::uno::UnoReference_Query _query )
+    {
+        reset( css::uno::Reference< INTERFACE >( _rRef, _query ) );
+        return is();
+    }
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_SHAREDUNOCOMPONENT_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/streamhelper.hxx b/include/unotools/streamhelper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..a727869bf
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/streamhelper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,70 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_STREAMHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_STREAMHELPER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/io/XInputStream.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/io/XSeekable.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+#include <tools/stream.hxx>
+#include <mutex>
+#include <utility>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+/**
+ * The helper implementation for a using input streams based on SvLockBytes.
+ */
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OInputStreamHelper final : public cppu::WeakImplHelper<css::io::XInputStream, css::io::XSeekable>
+{
+    std::mutex      m_aMutex;
+    SvLockBytesRef  m_xLockBytes;
+    sal_uInt64      m_nActPos;
+    sal_Int32       m_nAvailable;   // this is typically the chunk(buffer) size
+
+public:
+    OInputStreamHelper(SvLockBytesRef _xLockBytes,
+                       sal_uInt32 _nAvailable)
+        :m_xLockBytes(std::move(_xLockBytes))
+        ,m_nActPos(0)
+        ,m_nAvailable(_nAvailable){}
+
+// css::io::XInputStream
+    virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL readBytes( css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& aData, sal_Int32 nBytesToRead ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL readSomeBytes( css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& aData, sal_Int32 nMaxBytesToRead ) override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL skipBytes( sal_Int32 nBytesToSkip ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int32 SAL_CALL available(  ) override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL closeInput(  ) override;
+
+    virtual void SAL_CALL seek( sal_Int64 location ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getPosition(  ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getLength(  ) override;
+
+    // workaround for Ubuntu 18.04 / Fedora 31 (Coverity VM) build with std::mutex; must not be inline!
+    virtual void SAL_CALL acquire() SAL_NOEXCEPT override;
+};
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif // _UNOTOOLS_STREAM_WRAPPER_HXX_
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/streamwrap.hxx b/include/unotools/streamwrap.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..dc4c51807
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/streamwrap.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,184 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_STREAMWRAP_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_STREAMWRAP_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/io/XOutputStream.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/io/XInputStream.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/io/XSeekable.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/io/XTruncate.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/io/XStream.hpp>
+#include <com/sun/star/lang/XUnoTunnel.hpp>
+#include <comphelper/bytereader.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/implbase1.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+#include <mutex>
+
+class SvStream;
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+// workaround for incremental linking bugs in MSVC2015
+class SAL_DLLPUBLIC_TEMPLATE OInputStreamWrapper_Base : public cppu::WeakImplHelper< css::io::XInputStream, css::lang::XUnoTunnel > {};
+
+/// helper class for wrapping an SvStream into a com.sun.star.io::XInputStream
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OInputStreamWrapper : public OInputStreamWrapper_Base, public comphelper::ByteReader
+{
+protected:
+    std::mutex      m_aMutex;
+    SvStream*       m_pSvStream;
+    bool        m_bSvStreamOwner : 1;
+    OInputStreamWrapper()
+                    { m_pSvStream = nullptr; m_bSvStreamOwner = false; }
+    void            SetStream(SvStream* _pStream, bool bOwner )
+                    { m_pSvStream = _pStream; m_bSvStreamOwner = bOwner; }
+
+public:
+    OInputStreamWrapper(SvStream& _rStream);
+    OInputStreamWrapper(SvStream* pStream, bool bOwner=false);
+    OInputStreamWrapper(std::unique_ptr<SvStream> pStream);
+    virtual ~OInputStreamWrapper() override;
+
+// css::io::XInputStream
+    virtual sal_Int32   SAL_CALL    readBytes(css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& aData, sal_Int32 nBytesToRead) override;
+    virtual sal_Int32   SAL_CALL    readSomeBytes(css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& aData, sal_Int32 nMaxBytesToRead) override;
+    virtual void        SAL_CALL    skipBytes(sal_Int32 nBytesToSkip) override;
+    virtual sal_Int32   SAL_CALL    available() override;
+    virtual void        SAL_CALL    closeInput() override;
+
+// css::lang::XUnoTunnel
+    virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getSomething( const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& _rIdentifier ) override;
+
+// utl::ByteReader
+    virtual sal_Int32 readSomeBytes( sal_Int8* aData, sal_Int32 nMaxBytesToRead ) final override;
+
+protected:
+    /// throws a NotConnectedException if the object is not connected anymore
+    void checkConnected() const;
+    /// throws an exception according to the error flag of m_pSvStream
+    void checkError() const;
+};
+
+//= OSeekableInputStreamWrapper
+
+/** helper class for wrapping an SvStream into a com.sun.star.io::XInputStream
+    which is seekable (i.e. supports the com.sun.star.io::XSeekable interface).
+*/
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OSeekableInputStreamWrapper
+        : public cppu::ImplInheritanceHelper< OInputStreamWrapper, css::io::XSeekable >
+{
+protected:
+    OSeekableInputStreamWrapper() {}
+    ~OSeekableInputStreamWrapper() override;
+
+public:
+    OSeekableInputStreamWrapper(SvStream& _rStream);
+    OSeekableInputStreamWrapper(SvStream* _pStream, bool _bOwner = false);
+
+    // XSeekable
+    virtual void SAL_CALL seek( sal_Int64 _nLocation ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getPosition(  ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getLength(  ) override;
+};
+
+//= OOutputStreamWrapper
+
+class OOutputStreamWrapper : public cppu::WeakImplHelper<css::io::XOutputStream>
+{
+public:
+    UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OOutputStreamWrapper(SvStream& _rStream);
+
+protected:
+    virtual ~OOutputStreamWrapper() override;
+
+// css::io::XOutputStream
+    virtual void SAL_CALL writeBytes(const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& aData) override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL flush() override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL closeOutput() override;
+
+    /// throws an exception according to the error flag of m_pSvStream
+    void checkError() const;
+
+    // TODO: thread safety!
+    SvStream&       rStream;
+};
+
+//= OSeekableOutputStreamWrapper
+
+typedef ::cppu::ImplHelper1 <   css::io::XSeekable
+                            >   OSeekableOutputStreamWrapper_Base;
+/** helper class for wrapping an SvStream into a com.sun.star.io::XOutputStream
+    which is seekable (i.e. supports the com.sun.star.io::XSeekable interface).
+*/
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OSeekableOutputStreamWrapper final
+                :public OOutputStreamWrapper
+                ,public OSeekableOutputStreamWrapper_Base
+{
+public:
+    OSeekableOutputStreamWrapper(SvStream& _rStream);
+
+private:
+    virtual ~OSeekableOutputStreamWrapper() override;
+
+    // disambiguate XInterface
+    virtual css::uno::Any SAL_CALL queryInterface( const css::uno::Type& _rType ) override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL acquire(  ) noexcept override
+    { OOutputStreamWrapper::acquire(); }
+    virtual void SAL_CALL release(  ) noexcept override
+    { OOutputStreamWrapper::release(); }
+
+    // XSeekable
+    virtual void SAL_CALL seek( sal_Int64 _nLocation ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getPosition(  ) override;
+    virtual sal_Int64 SAL_CALL getLength(  ) override;
+};
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC OStreamWrapper final
+        : public cppu::ImplInheritanceHelper<OSeekableInputStreamWrapper,
+                                             css::io::XStream,
+                                             css::io::XOutputStream,
+                                             css::io::XTruncate>
+{
+    ~OStreamWrapper() override;
+
+public:
+    OStreamWrapper(SvStream& _rStream);
+    OStreamWrapper(std::unique_ptr<SvStream> _rStream);
+
+// css::io::XStream
+    virtual css::uno::Reference< css::io::XInputStream > SAL_CALL getInputStream(  ) override;
+    virtual css::uno::Reference< css::io::XOutputStream > SAL_CALL getOutputStream(  ) override;
+
+// css::io::XOutputStream
+    virtual void SAL_CALL writeBytes(const css::uno::Sequence< sal_Int8 >& aData) override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL flush() override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL closeOutput() override;
+    virtual void SAL_CALL truncate() override;
+};
+
+}
+// namespace utl
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_STREAMWRAP_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/syslocale.hxx b/include/unotools/syslocale.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..e5bc9dd85
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/syslocale.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,73 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_SYSLOCALE_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_SYSLOCALE_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/textenc.h>
+
+#include <memory>
+
+class CharClass;
+class LanguageTag;
+class LocaleDataWrapper;
+class SvtSysLocale_Impl;
+class SvtSysLocaleOptions;
+
+/**
+    SvtSysLocale provides a refcounted single instance of an application wide
+    LocaleDataWrapper and <type>CharClass</type> which always
+    follow the locale as it is currently configured by the user. You may use
+    it anywhere to access the locale data elements like decimal separator and
+    simple date formatting and so on. Constructing and destructing a
+    SvtSysLocale is not expensive as long as there is at least one instance
+    left.
+ */
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtSysLocale
+{
+    friend class SvtSysLocale_Impl;     // access to mutex
+
+    std::shared_ptr<SvtSysLocale_Impl>  pImpl;
+
+public:
+                                        SvtSysLocale();
+                                        ~SvtSysLocale();
+
+            const LocaleDataWrapper&    GetLocaleData() const;
+            const CharClass&            GetCharClass() const;
+
+    /** It is safe to store the pointers locally and use them AS LONG AS THE
+        INSTANCE OF SvtSysLocale LIVES!
+        It is a faster access but be sure what you do!
+     */
+            SvtSysLocaleOptions&        GetOptions() const;
+            const LanguageTag&          GetLanguageTag() const;
+            const LanguageTag&          GetUILanguageTag() const;
+
+    /** Get the best MIME encoding matching the system locale, or if that isn't
+        determinable one that matches the UI locale, or UTF8 if everything else
+        fails.
+     */
+    static  rtl_TextEncoding    GetBestMimeEncoding();
+};
+
+#endif  // INCLUDED_SVTOOLS_SYSLOCALE_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/syslocaleoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/syslocaleoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..5f5e57540
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/syslocaleoptions.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,152 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_SYSLOCALEOPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_SYSLOCALEOPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <i18nlangtag/lang.h>
+#include <i18nlangtag/languagetag.hxx>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+
+class SvtSysLocaleOptions_Impl;
+class LinkParamNone;
+template <typename Arg, typename Ret> class Link;
+
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtSysLocaleOptions final : public utl::detail::Options
+{
+    std::shared_ptr<SvtSysLocaleOptions_Impl>  pImpl;
+
+    virtual void ConfigurationChanged( utl::ConfigurationBroadcaster* p, ConfigurationHints nHint ) override;
+
+public:
+
+    enum class EOption
+    {
+        Locale,
+        Currency,
+        DatePatterns
+    };
+                                SvtSysLocaleOptions();
+                                virtual ~SvtSysLocaleOptions() override;
+
+    // ConfigItem methods
+
+            bool                IsModified() const;
+            void                Commit();
+
+                                /** Add a listener to react on config changes
+                                    which are broadcasted in a SfxSimpleHint
+                                    @return
+                                        <TRUE/> if added
+                                        <FALSE/> if not added
+                                 */
+
+    /** Block broadcasts and accumulate hints. This may be useful if, for
+        example, the locale and currency are changed and the currency was
+        empty before, since changing the locale with an empty currency does
+        also broadcast a change hint for the currency which would result in
+        two currency changes broadcasted.
+
+        @param bBlock
+            <TRUE/>: broadcasts are blocked until reversed.
+            <FALSE/>: broadcasts are not blocked anymore. Pending hints are
+            broadcasted if no other instance blocks the broadcast.
+
+        @ATTENTION
+        All SvtSysLocaleOptions instances point to exactly one refcounted
+        internal representation instance and broadcast blocks are counted.
+        Thus if you issue a BlockBroadcasts(true) you MUST issue a matching
+        BlockBroadcasts(false) or otherwise pending hints would never be
+        broadcasted again.
+     */
+       virtual void             BlockBroadcasts( bool bBlock ) override;
+
+    // config value access methods
+
+    /// The config string may be empty to denote the SYSTEM locale
+            void                SetLocaleConfigString( const OUString& rStr );
+            /** Get locale set, not resolved to the real locale. */
+            LanguageTag         GetLanguageTag() const;
+            /** Get locale set, always resolved to the real locale. */
+            const LanguageTag&  GetRealLanguageTag() const;
+
+    /// The config string may be empty to denote the SYSTEM locale
+            void                SetUILocaleConfigString( const OUString& rStr );
+            /** Get UI locale set, always resolved to the real locale. */
+            const LanguageTag&  GetRealUILanguageTag() const;
+
+    /// The config string may be empty to denote the default currency of the locale
+            const OUString&     GetCurrencyConfigString() const;
+            void                SetCurrencyConfigString( const OUString& rStr );
+
+    /** The config string may be empty to denote the default
+        DateAcceptancePatterns of the locale */
+            const OUString&     GetDatePatternsConfigString() const;
+            void                SetDatePatternsConfigString( const OUString& rStr );
+
+    // determine whether the decimal separator defined in the keyboard layout is used
+    // or the one appropriate to the locale
+            bool                IsDecimalSeparatorAsLocale() const;
+            void                SetDecimalSeparatorAsLocale( bool bSet);
+
+    // determine whether to ignore changes to the system keyboard/locale/language when
+    // determining the language for newly entered text
+            bool                IsIgnoreLanguageChange() const;
+            void                SetIgnoreLanguageChange( bool bSet);
+
+    // convenience methods
+
+    /// Get currency abbreviation and locale from an USD-en-US or EUR-de-DE string
+    static  void                GetCurrencyAbbrevAndLanguage(
+                                    OUString& rAbbrev,
+                                    LanguageType& eLang,
+                                    const OUString& rConfigString );
+
+    /// Create an USD-en-US or EUR-de-DE string
+    static  OUString            CreateCurrencyConfigString(
+                                    const OUString& rAbbrev,
+                                    LanguageType eLang );
+
+            void                GetCurrencyAbbrevAndLanguage(
+                                        OUString& rAbbrev,
+                                        LanguageType& eLang ) const
+                                    {
+                                        GetCurrencyAbbrevAndLanguage( rAbbrev,
+                                            eLang, GetCurrencyConfigString() );
+                                    }
+
+    /** Set a link to a method to be called whenever the default currency
+        changes. This can be only one method, and normally it is the static
+        link method which calls SvNumberFormatter::SetDefaultSystemCurrency().
+        This is needed because the number formatter isn't part of the svl light
+        library, otherwise we could call SetDefaultSystemCurrency() directly.
+     */
+    static  void                SetCurrencyChangeLink( const Link<LinkParamNone*,void>& rLink );
+    static  const Link<LinkParamNone*,void>&       GetCurrencyChangeLink();
+
+    /** return the readonly state of the queried option. */
+            bool                IsReadOnly( EOption eOption ) const;
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_SYSLOCALEOPTIONS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/tempfile.hxx b/include/unotools/tempfile.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..b7f691abb
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/tempfile.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,145 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_TEMPFILE_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_TEMPFILE_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <tools/stream.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+/**
+    The class TempFile gives access to temporary files in the local file system. Sometimes they are needed because a 3rd party
+    code has a file name based interface, or some file access has to be done locally without transferring tons of bytes to or
+    from a remote system.
+    Creating a UCB content on a TempFile is only possible if a UCP for the local file system is present.
+    TempFiles can always be accessed by SvFileStreams or Sot/SvStorages using the "physical" file name ( not the URL, because
+    this may be a non-file URL, see below ), but if a UCB content can be created, it is also possible to take the URL and use
+    the UCB helper classes for streams. For convenience use UcbStreamHelper.
+    A Tempfile always has a "physical" file name ( a file name in the local computers host notation ) but it has a
+    "UCB compatible" URL only if a UCP for the local file system exists. This URL may have its own URL scheme
+    ( not necessarily "file://" ! ). The TempFile class methods take this into account, but other simple conversions like
+    the osl functions do not.
+    So it is a potential error to convert between the filename and the URL of a TempFile object using functions or methods
+    outside this class.
+*/
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC TempFile
+{
+    OUString    aName;
+    std::unique_ptr<SvStream>
+                pStream;
+    bool        bIsDirectory;
+    bool        bKillingFileEnabled;
+
+public:
+                    /**
+                    Create a temporary file or directory, in the default tempfile folder or if possible in a given folder.
+                    This given folder ( the "parent" parameter ( if not NULL ) ) must be a "UCB compatible" URL.
+                    The temporary object is created in the local file system, even if there is no UCB that can access it.
+                    If the given folder is part of the local file system, the TempFile is created in this folder.
+                    */
+                    TempFile( const OUString* pParent=nullptr, bool bDirectory=false );
+
+                    /**
+                    Same as above; additionally the name starts with some given characters followed by a counter ( example:
+                    rLeadingChars="abc" means "abc0","abc1" and so on, depending on existing files in the folder ).
+                    The extension string may be f.e. ".txt" or "", if no extension string is given, ".tmp" is used
+                        @param  _bStartWithZero If set to false names will be generated like "abc","abc0","abc1"
+                        @param  bCreateParentDirs If rLeadingChars contains a slash, this will create the required
+                                parent directories.
+                    */
+                    TempFile( std::u16string_view rLeadingChars, bool _bStartWithZero=true, const OUString* pExtension=nullptr,
+                              const OUString* pParent=nullptr, bool bCreateParentDirs=false );
+
+                    TempFile(TempFile && other) noexcept;
+
+                    /**
+                    TempFile will be removed from disk in dtor if EnableKillingFile(true) was called before.
+                    Temporary directories will be removed recursively in that case.
+                    */
+                    ~TempFile();
+
+                    /**
+                    Returns sal_True if it has a valid file name.
+                    */
+    bool            IsValid() const;
+
+                    /**
+                    Returns the URL of the tempfile object.
+                    If you want to have the system path file name, use the GetFileName() method of this object
+                    */
+    OUString const & GetURL() const;
+
+                    /**
+                    Returns the system path name of the tempfile in host notation
+                    If you want to have the URL, use the GetURL() method of this object.
+                    */
+    OUString        GetFileName() const;
+
+                    /**
+                    Returns a stream to the tempfiles data; the stream is owned by the tempfile object, so you have to keep this
+                    alive as long as you want to use the stream. If the TempFile object is destroyed, it also destroys the
+                    stream object, the underlying file is only deleted if EnableKillingFile(true) has been called before!
+                    */
+    SvStream*       GetStream( StreamMode eMode );
+
+                    /**
+                    Let the TempFile object close and destroy the owned stream object if any.
+                    */
+    void            CloseStream();
+
+                    /**
+                    If enabled the file will be removed from disk when the dtor is called ( default is not enabled )
+                    */
+    void            EnableKillingFile( bool bEnable=true )
+                    { bKillingFileEnabled = bEnable; }
+
+                    /**
+                    Only create a "physical" file name for a temporary file that would be valid at that moment.
+                    Should only be used for 3rd party code with a file name interface that wants to create the file by itself.
+                    If you want to convert file name into a URL, always use class LocalFileHelper, but never use any
+                    conversion functions of osl.
+                    */
+    static OUString CreateTempName();
+
+                    /**
+                    The TempNameBaseDirectory is a subfolder in the folder that is passed as a "physical" file name in the
+                    SetTempNameBaseDirectory method.
+                    This subfolder will be used if a TempFile or TempName is created without a parent name or a parent name
+                    that does not belong to the local file system.
+                    The caller of the SetTempNameBase is responsible for deleting this folder and all temporary files in it.
+                    The return value of both methods is the complete "physical" name of the tempname base folder.
+                    It is not a URL because all URLs must be "UCB compatible", so there may be no suitable URL at all.
+                    */
+    static OUString SetTempNameBaseDirectory( const OUString &rBaseName );
+
+    // Return the URL of the temp directory (the one set with SetTempNameBaseDirectory or the
+    // default tempfile folder):
+    static OUString GetTempNameBaseDirectory();
+};
+
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/textsearch.hxx b/include/unotools/textsearch.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..140200fec
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/textsearch.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,225 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_TEXTSEARCH_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_TEXTSEARCH_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <i18nlangtag/lang.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.h>
+
+#include <ostream>
+
+class CharClass;
+
+namespace com::sun::star::lang { struct Locale; }
+namespace com::sun::star::util { class XTextSearch2; }
+namespace com::sun::star::util { struct SearchResult; }
+namespace i18nutil {
+    struct SearchOptions;
+    struct SearchOptions2;
+}
+enum class TransliterationFlags;
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+// Utility class for searching
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SearchParam
+{
+public:
+    enum class SearchType { Normal, Regexp, Wildcard, Unknown = -1 };
+
+    /** Convert configuration and document boolean settings to SearchType.
+        If bWildcard is true it takes precedence over rbRegExp.
+        @param  rbRegExp
+                If true and bWildcard is also true, rbRegExp is set to false to
+                adapt the caller's settings.
+     */
+    static SearchType ConvertToSearchType( bool bWildcard, bool & rbRegExp )
+    {
+        if (bWildcard)
+        {
+            if (rbRegExp)
+                rbRegExp = false;
+            return SearchType::Wildcard;
+        }
+        return rbRegExp ? SearchType::Regexp : SearchType::Normal;
+    }
+
+    /** Convert SearchType to configuration and document boolean settings.
+     */
+    static void ConvertToBool( const SearchType eSearchType, bool& rbWildcard, bool& rbRegExp )
+    {
+        switch (eSearchType)
+        {
+            case SearchType::Wildcard:
+                rbWildcard = true;
+                rbRegExp = false;
+                break;
+            case SearchType::Regexp:
+                rbWildcard = false;
+                rbRegExp = true;
+                break;
+            default:
+                rbWildcard = false;
+                rbRegExp = false;
+                break;
+        }
+    }
+
+private:
+    OUString sSrchStr;            // the search string
+
+    SearchType m_eSrchType;       // search normal/regular/LevDist
+
+    sal_uInt32 m_cWildEscChar;      // wildcard escape character
+
+    bool m_bCaseSense  : 1;
+    bool m_bWildMatchSel : 1;       // wildcard pattern must match entire selection
+
+public:
+    SearchParam( const OUString &rText,
+                    SearchType eSrchType,
+                    bool bCaseSensitive = true,
+                    sal_uInt32 cWildEscChar = '\\',
+                    bool bWildMatchSel = false );
+
+    SearchParam( const SearchParam& );
+
+    ~SearchParam();
+
+    const OUString& GetSrchStr() const          { return sSrchStr; }
+    SearchType      GetSrchType() const         { return m_eSrchType; }
+
+    bool            IsCaseSensitive() const     { return m_bCaseSense; }
+    bool            IsWildMatchSel() const      { return m_bWildMatchSel; }
+
+    // signed return for API use
+    sal_Int32       GetWildEscChar() const      { return static_cast<sal_Int32>(m_cWildEscChar); }
+};
+
+// For use in SAL_DEBUG etc. Output format not guaranteed to be stable.
+template<typename charT, typename traits>
+inline std::basic_ostream<charT, traits> & operator <<(std::basic_ostream<charT, traits> & stream, const SearchParam::SearchType& eType)
+{
+    switch (eType)
+    {
+    case SearchParam::SearchType::Normal:
+        stream << "N";
+        break;
+    case SearchParam::SearchType::Regexp:
+        stream << "RE";
+        break;
+    case SearchParam::SearchType::Wildcard:
+        stream << "WC";
+        break;
+    case SearchParam::SearchType::Unknown:
+        stream << "UNK";
+        break;
+    default:
+        stream << static_cast<int>(eType) << '?';
+        break;
+    }
+
+    return stream;
+}
+
+//  Utility class for searching a substring in a string.
+//  The following metrics are supported
+//      - ordinary text (Bayer/Moore)
+//      - regular expressions
+//      - weighted Levenshtein distance
+//      - wildcards '*' and '?'
+
+//  This class allows forward and backward searching!
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC TextSearch
+{
+    static css::uno::Reference< css::util::XTextSearch2 >
+        getXTextSearch( const i18nutil::SearchOptions2& rPara );
+
+    css::uno::Reference < css::util::XTextSearch2 >
+            xTextSearch;
+
+    void Init( const SearchParam & rParam,
+               const css::lang::Locale& rLocale );
+
+public:
+    // rText is the string being searched for
+    // this first two CTORs are deprecated!
+    TextSearch( const SearchParam & rPara, LanguageType nLanguage );
+    TextSearch( const SearchParam & rPara, const CharClass& rCClass );
+
+    TextSearch( const i18nutil::SearchOptions2& rPara );
+    ~TextSearch();
+
+    /* search in the (selected) text the search string:
+        rScrTxt - the text, in which we search
+        pStart  - start position for the search
+        pEnd    - end position for the search
+
+        RETURN values   ==  true: something is found
+                        - pStart start pos of the found text,
+                        - pEnd end pos of the found text,
+                        - pSrchResult - the search result with all found
+                             positions. Is only filled with more positions
+                             if the regular expression handles groups.
+
+                        == false: nothing found, pStart, pEnd unchanged.
+
+        Definitions: start pos always inclusive, end pos always exclusive!
+                     The position must always in the right direction!
+                    search forward: start <= end
+                    search backward: end <= start
+    */
+    bool SearchForward( const OUString &rStr,
+                        sal_Int32* pStart, sal_Int32* pEnd,
+                        css::util::SearchResult* pRes = nullptr );
+    /**
+     * @brief searchForward Search forward beginning from the start to the end
+     *        of the given text
+     * @param rStr The text in which we search
+     * @return True if the search term is found in the text
+     */
+    bool searchForward( const OUString &rStr );
+    bool SearchBackward( const OUString &rStr,
+                        sal_Int32* pStart, sal_Int32* pEnd,
+                        css::util::SearchResult* pRes = nullptr );
+
+    void SetLocale( const i18nutil::SearchOptions2& rOpt,
+                    const css::lang::Locale& rLocale );
+
+    /* replace back references in the replace string by the sub expressions from the search result */
+    void ReplaceBackReferences( OUString& rReplaceStr, std::u16string_view rStr, const css::util::SearchResult& rResult ) const;
+
+    /** Upgrade SearchOptions to SearchOptions2 for places that don't handle
+        SearchOptions2 yet. Better fix your module if you want to support
+        wildcard search.
+     */
+    static i18nutil::SearchOptions2 UpgradeToSearchOptions2( const i18nutil::SearchOptions& rOptions );
+
+};
+
+}   // namespace utl
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/transliterationwrapper.hxx b/include/unotools/transliterationwrapper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..138c1e8d1
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/transliterationwrapper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,122 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_TRANSLITERATIONWRAPPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_TRANSLITERATIONWRAPPER_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <i18nlangtag/languagetag.hxx>
+#include <i18nlangtag/lang.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { template <typename > class Sequence; }
+namespace com::sun::star::i18n { class XExtendedTransliteration; }
+namespace com::sun::star::uno { class XComponentContext; }
+enum class TransliterationFlags;
+
+namespace utl
+{
+
+class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC TransliterationWrapper
+{
+    css::uno::Reference< css::i18n::XExtendedTransliteration > xTrans;
+    LanguageTag aLanguageTag;
+    TransliterationFlags nType;
+    mutable bool bFirstCall;
+
+    TransliterationWrapper( const TransliterationWrapper& ) = delete;
+    TransliterationWrapper& operator=( const TransliterationWrapper& ) = delete;
+
+    void loadModuleImpl() const;
+    void setLanguageLocaleImpl( LanguageType nLang );
+
+public:
+    TransliterationWrapper( const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext > & rxContext,
+                    TransliterationFlags nType );
+
+    ~TransliterationWrapper();
+
+    TransliterationFlags getType() const { return nType; }
+
+    bool needLanguageForTheMode() const;
+
+    /** set a new language and load the corresponding transliteration module if
+        needed for the mode set with nType in the ctor */
+    void loadModuleIfNeeded( LanguageType nLang );
+
+    /** Load the transliteration module specified by rModuleName, which has to
+        be the UNO service implementation name that is expanded to the full UNO
+        service implementation name, for example, "NumToCharKanjiShort_ja_JP"
+        expands to
+        "com.sun.star.i18n.Transliteration.NumToCharKanjiShort_ja_JP".
+        @ATTENTION!
+        This method ignores the mode type set with the constructor and
+        interferes with the loadModuleIfNeeded() method and the transliterate()
+        method that gets a LanguageType passed as parameter.  Using one of
+        those may load a different module and overwrite this setting. Only the
+        transliterate() method that takes no LanguageType parameter may be used
+        for a specific module loaded with this method.  */
+    void loadModuleByImplName( const OUString& rModuleName, LanguageType nLang );
+
+    /** This transliteration method corresponds with the loadModuleByImplName()
+        method. It relies on a module being loaded and does not try load one.
+        If for any reason the string can't be transliterated the original
+        string is returned.  */
+    OUString transliterate( const OUString& rStr,
+                        sal_Int32 nStart, sal_Int32 nLen ) const;
+
+    // Wrapper implementations of class Transliteration
+    OUString transliterate( const OUString& rStr, LanguageType nLanguage,
+                        sal_Int32 nStart, sal_Int32 nLen,
+                        css::uno::Sequence <sal_Int32>* pOffset );
+
+    /** If two strings are equal per this transliteration.
+        Returns the number of matched code points in any case, even if strings
+        are not equal, for example:
+        equals( "a", 0, 1, nMatch1, "aaa", 0, 3, nMatch2 )
+        returns false and nMatch:=1 and nMatch2:=1
+        equals( "aab", 0, 3, nMatch1, "aaa", 0, 3, nMatch2 )
+        returns false and nMatch:=2 and nMatch2:=2
+     */
+    bool equals(
+        const OUString& rStr1, sal_Int32 nPos1, sal_Int32 nCount1, sal_Int32& nMatch1,
+        const OUString& rStr2, sal_Int32 nPos2, sal_Int32 nCount2, sal_Int32& nMatch2 ) const;
+
+    sal_Int32 compareString( const OUString& rStr1, const OUString& rStr2 ) const;
+
+    // helpers
+
+    /** If two strings are really equal as per this translation, and not just
+        one string is matching the start of the other. Use this method instead
+        of compareString()==0 because it is much faster.
+     */
+    bool isEqual( const OUString& rStr1, const OUString& rStr2 ) const;
+
+    /** If string rStr1 matches the start of string rStr2, i.e. "a" in "aaa"
+     */
+    bool isMatch( const OUString& rStr1, const OUString& rStr2 ) const;
+
+};
+
+}       // namespace utl
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/ucbhelper.hxx b/include/unotools/ucbhelper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..76168e1f7
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/ucbhelper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,113 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_UCBHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_UCBHELPER_HXX
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star {
+    namespace uno {
+        class Any;
+        class XComponentContext;
+    }
+    namespace ucb{
+        class XCommandEnvironment;
+    }
+}
+namespace ucbhelper { class Content; }
+
+namespace utl::UCBContentHelper {
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool IsDocument(OUString const & url);
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool IsFolder(OUString const & url);
+
+/// @param title must not be null
+/// @return true iff title has been set (i.e., if obtaining the "Title" property
+///     of the given content yields a non-void value without raising a
+///     non-RuntimeException; RuntimeExceptions are passed through)
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool GetTitle(
+    OUString const & url, OUString * title);
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool Kill(OUString const & url);
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC css::uno::Any GetProperty(
+    OUString const & url, OUString const & property);
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool MakeFolder(
+    ucbhelper::Content & parent, OUString const & title,
+    ucbhelper::Content & result);
+
+/// like mkdir -p
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool ensureFolder(
+    const css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XComponentContext >& xCtx,
+    const css::uno::Reference< css::ucb::XCommandEnvironment >& xEnv,
+    std::u16string_view rFolder, ucbhelper::Content & result) noexcept;
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool IsYounger(
+    OUString const & younger, OUString const & older);
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool Exists(OUString const & url);
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool IsSubPath(
+    OUString const & parent, OUString const & child);
+
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC bool EqualURLs(
+    OUString const & url1, OUString const & url2);
+
+/**
+* Returns a default XCommandEnvironment to be used
+* when creating a ucbhelper::Content.
+*
+* Due to the way the WebDAV UCP provider works, an interaction handler
+* is always needed:
+* 1) to activate the credential dialog or to provide the cached credentials
+* whenever the server requests them;
+*
+* 2) in case of ssl connection (https) to activate the dialog to show the
+* certificate if said certificate looks wrong or dubious.
+*
+* This helper provides the XCommandEnvironment with an interaction
+* handler that intercepts:
+* 1) css::ucb::AuthenticationRequest()
+* 2) css::ucb::CertificateValidationRequest()
+* 3) css::ucb::InteractiveIOException()
+* 4) css::ucb::UnsupportedDataSinkException()
+*
+* Exception 1) and 2) will be passed to the UI handler, e.g. shown to
+* the user for interaction.
+*
+* Exception 3) and 4) will be have a default 'Abort' result.
+* See comphelper::StillReadWriteInteraction for details.
+* comphelper::StillReadWriteInteraction was introduced in
+* commit bbe51f039dffca2506ea542feb78571b6358b981.
+*/
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC
+    css::uno::Reference< css::ucb::XCommandEnvironment > getDefaultCommandEnvironment();
+
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/ucbstreamhelper.hxx b/include/unotools/ucbstreamhelper.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..69bae538b
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/ucbstreamhelper.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,54 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_UCBSTREAMHELPER_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_UCBSTREAMHELPER_HXX
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+
+#include <tools/stream.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::io
+            {
+                class XStream;
+                class XInputStream;
+            }
+
+namespace com::sun::star::awt { class XWindow; }
+
+namespace utl
+{
+    class UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC UcbStreamHelper
+    {
+    public:
+        static std::unique_ptr<SvStream> CreateStream(const OUString& rFileName, StreamMode eOpenMode, css::uno::Reference<css::awt::XWindow> xParentWin = nullptr);
+        static std::unique_ptr<SvStream> CreateStream(const OUString& rFileName, StreamMode eOpenMode,
+                                                      bool bFileExists, css::uno::Reference<css::awt::XWindow> xParentWin = nullptr);
+        static std::unique_ptr<SvStream> CreateStream( const css::uno::Reference < css::io::XInputStream >& xStream );
+        static std::unique_ptr<SvStream> CreateStream( const css::uno::Reference < css::io::XStream >& xStream );
+        static std::unique_ptr<SvStream> CreateStream( const css::uno::Reference < css::io::XInputStream >& xStream, bool bCloseStream );
+        static std::unique_ptr<SvStream> CreateStream( const css::uno::Reference < css::io::XStream >& xStream, bool bCloseStream );
+    };
+}
+
+#endif
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h b/include/unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..86864b3f0
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h
@@ -0,0 +1,34 @@
+/* -*- 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_UNOTOOLS_UNOTOOLSDLLAPI_H
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_UNOTOOLSDLLAPI_H
+
+#include <sal/types.h>
+
+#if defined(UNOTOOLS_DLLIMPLEMENTATION)
+#define UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SAL_DLLPUBLIC_EXPORT
+#else
+#define UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SAL_DLLPUBLIC_IMPORT
+#endif
+#define UNOTOOLS_DLLPRIVATE SAL_DLLPRIVATE
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_UNOTOOLSDLLAPI_H
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/useroptions.hxx b/include/unotools/useroptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..d21482dcc
--- /dev/null
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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_UNOTOOLS_USEROPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_USEROPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+#include <unotools/options.hxx>
+#include <memory>
+
+namespace osl { class Mutex; }
+
+// define ----------------------------------------------------------------
+enum class UserOptToken
+{
+    City               = 0,
+    Company            = 1,
+    Country            = 2,
+    Email              = 3,
+    Fax                = 4,
+    FirstName          = 5,
+    LastName           = 6,
+    Position           = 7,
+    State              = 8,
+    Street             = 9,
+    TelephoneHome      = 10,
+    TelephoneWork      = 11,
+    Title              = 12,
+    ID                 = 13,
+    Zip                = 14,
+    FathersName        = 15,
+    Apartment          = 16,
+    SigningKey         = 17,
+    EncryptionKey      = 18,
+    EncryptToSelf      = 19,
+    LAST               = EncryptToSelf,
+};
+
+// class SvtUserOptions --------------------------------------------------
+
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtUserOptions final : public utl::detail::Options
+{
+public:
+    SvtUserOptions ();
+    virtual ~SvtUserOptions () override;
+
+    // get the address token
+    OUString GetCompany        () const;
+    OUString GetFirstName      () const;
+    OUString GetLastName       () const;
+    OUString GetID             () const;
+    OUString GetStreet         () const;
+    OUString GetCity           () const;
+    OUString GetState          () const;
+    OUString GetZip            () const;
+    OUString GetCountry        () const;
+    OUString GetPosition       () const;
+    OUString GetTitle          () const;
+    OUString GetTelephoneHome  () const;
+    OUString GetTelephoneWork  () const;
+    OUString GetFax            () const;
+    OUString GetEmail          () const;
+    OUString GetSigningKey     () const;
+    OUString GetEncryptionKey  () const;
+    bool GetEncryptToSelf      () const;
+
+    OUString GetFullName       () const;
+
+    bool      IsTokenReadonly (UserOptToken nToken) const;
+    OUString  GetToken (UserOptToken nToken) const;
+    void      SetToken (UserOptToken nToken, OUString const& rNewToken);
+    void      SetBoolValue (UserOptToken nToken, bool bNewValue);
+
+private:
+    class SAL_DLLPRIVATE Impl;
+    std::shared_ptr<Impl> xImpl;
+    static std::weak_ptr<Impl> xSharedImpl;
+private:
+    class SAL_DLLPRIVATE ChangeListener;
+};
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_USEROPTIONS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/viewoptions.hxx b/include/unotools/viewoptions.hxx
new file mode 100644
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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_UNOTOOLS_VIEWOPTIONS_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_VIEWOPTIONS_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Sequence.hxx>
+#include <sal/types.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+namespace com::sun::star::beans { struct NamedValue; }
+namespace com::sun::star::container { class XNameAccess; }
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @descr          Use these enum values to specify right list in configuration in which your view data are saved.
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+
+enum class EViewType
+{
+    Dialog    =   0,
+    TabDialog =   1,
+    TabPage   =   2,
+    Window    =   3
+};
+
+/*-************************************************************************************************************
+    @short          collect information about view features
+    @descr          We support different basetypes of views like dialogs, tab-dialogs, tab-pages and normal windows.
+                    You must specify your basetype by using right enum value and must give us a valid name for your
+                    subkey in registry! We support some fix features for some bastypes and user data as string for all!
+                    see also configuration package "org.openoffice.Office.Views/..." for further information.
+
+                    template of configuration:
+                        DialogType
+                            /WindowState    [string]
+                            /UserData       [set of any scalar types]
+                        TabDialogType
+                            /WindowState    [string]
+                            /UserData       [set of any scalar types]
+                            /PageID         [int]
+                        TabPageType
+                            /WindowState    [string]
+                            /UserData       [set of any scalar types]
+                        WindowType
+                            /WindowState    [string]
+                            /UserData       [set of any scalar types]
+                            /Visible        [boolean]
+
+                    structure of configuration:
+
+                        org.openoffice.Office.Views [package]
+                                                    /Dialogs    [set]
+                                                                /Dialog_FileOpen            [DialogType]
+                                                                /Dialog_ImportGraphics      [DialogType]
+                                                                ...
+                                                                /Dialog_<YourName>          [DialogType]
+
+                                                    /TabDialogs [set]
+                                                                /TabDialog_001              [TabDialogType]
+                                                                /TabDialog_Blubber          [TabDialogType]
+                                                                ...
+                                                                /TabDialog_<YourName>       [TabDialogType]
+
+                                                    /TabPages   [set]
+                                                                /TabPage_XXX                [TabPageType]
+                                                                /TabPage_Date               [TabPageType]
+                                                                ...
+                                                                /TabPage_<YourName>         [TabPageType]
+
+                                                    /Windows    [set]
+                                                                /Window_User                [WindowType]
+                                                                /Window_Options             [WindowType]
+                                                                ...
+                                                                /Window_<YourName>          [WindowType]
+    @devstatus      ready to use
+*//*-*************************************************************************************************************/
+
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC SvtViewOptions final
+{
+
+    //  public methods
+
+    public:
+
+        //  constructor / destructor
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      standard constructor and destructor
+            @descr      This will de-/initialize an instance with default values.
+                        You must give us the basic type of your view and a name which specify right entry
+                        in dynamical configuration list. If entry not exist, we create a new one!
+
+            @seealso    enum EViewType
+
+            @param      "eType" specify type of your view and is used to use right data container!
+            @param      "sViewName" specify the name of your view and is the key name in data list too.
+            @onerror    An assertion is thrown in debug version. Otherwise we do nothing!
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+         SvtViewOptions( EViewType eType, OUString sViewName );
+
+        //  interface
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      use it to get information about existing entries in configuration
+            @descr      The methods to set/get the position or size will create a new entry automatically if
+                        it not already exist and work with default values!
+                        If this a problem for you - you MUST call these method before and
+                        you must make up your own mind about that.
+            @onerror    No error should occur.
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+        bool Exists() const;
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      use it to delete an entry of dynamic view set
+            @descr      You can use this method to delete an existing node in configuration.
+                        But if you call a Set- or Get- method again on this instance
+                        the item is created again! If you do nothing after this call
+                        your view will die relay in configuration...
+
+            @seealso    method Exist()
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+        void Delete();
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      use it to set/get the window state of your view
+            @descr      These value describe position/size and some other states of a window.
+                        Use it with right vcl methods directly. Normally it's not necessary to
+                        parse given string!
+
+            @seealso    vcl methods
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+        OUString GetWindowState(                               ) const;
+        void            SetWindowState( const OUString& sState );
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      use it to set/get the page number which was the last active one
+            @descr      It's only supported for:    - tab-dialogs
+                        If you call it for other ones you will get an assertion in debug version.
+                        In a product version we do nothing!
+            @onerror    An assertion is thrown in debug version. Otherwise we do nothing!
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+        OString GetPageID() const;
+        void      SetPageID(std::string_view rID);
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      use it to set/get the visual state of a window
+            @descr      It's only supported for:    - windows
+                        If you call it for other ones you will get an assertion in debug version.
+                        In a product version we do nothing!
+            @onerror    An assertion is thrown in debug version. Otherwise we do nothing!
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+        bool IsVisible (                 ) const;
+        void     SetVisible( bool bState );
+
+        /** Return true if the "Visible" property actually has a non-nil value
+
+            (IsVisible will somewhat arbitrarily return false if the property is
+            nil.)
+        */
+        bool HasVisible() const;
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      use it to set/get the extended user data (consisting of a set of named scalar values)
+            @descr      It's supported for ALL types!
+                        Every view can handle its own user defined data set.
+            @onerror    In the non-product version, an assertion is made. In a product version, errors are silently ignored.
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+        css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::NamedValue > GetUserData(                                                                                     ) const;
+        void                                         SetUserData( const css::uno::Sequence< css::beans::NamedValue >& lData );
+
+        /*-****************************************************************************************************
+            @short      use it to set/get ONE special user data item directly
+            @descr      Normally you can work on full user data list by using "Set/GetUserData()".
+                        With this function you have an access on special list entries directly without any
+            @onerror    In the non-product version, an assertion is made. In a product version, errors are silently ignored.
+        *//*-*****************************************************************************************************/
+
+        css::uno::Any GetUserItem( const OUString&            sName  ) const;
+        void          SetUserItem( const OUString&            sName  ,
+                                   const css::uno::Any& aValue );
+
+    private:
+        enum State { STATE_NONE, STATE_FALSE, STATE_TRUE };
+
+        css::uno::Reference< css::uno::XInterface > impl_getSetNode( const OUString& sNode           ,
+                                                                           bool         bCreateIfMissing) const;
+        State GetVisible() const;
+
+        /// specify which list of views in configuration is used! This can't be a static value!!!
+        /// ... because we need this value to work with right static data container.
+        EViewType           m_eViewType;
+        OUString     m_sViewName;
+
+        OUString                                           m_sListName;
+        css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess > m_xRoot;
+        css::uno::Reference< css::container::XNameAccess > m_xSet;
+};      // class SvtViewOptions
+
+#endif // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_VIEWOPTIONS_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/weakref.hxx b/include/unotools/weakref.hxx
new file mode 100644
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--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/weakref.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,133 @@
+/* -*- 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 .
+ */
+
+/*
+ * This file is part of LibreOffice published API.
+ */
+#pragma once
+
+#include <sal/config.h>
+
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/Reference.hxx>
+#include <com/sun/star/uno/XInterface.hpp>
+#include <cppuhelper/weakref.hxx>
+#include <cppuhelper/weak.hxx>
+#include <rtl/ref.hxx>
+
+namespace cppu
+{
+class OWeakObject;
+}
+
+namespace unotools
+{
+/** The WeakReference<> holds a weak reference to an object.
+
+    That object must implement the css::uno::XWeak interface.
+
+    The WeakReference itself is *not* thread safe, just as
+    Reference itself isn't, but the implementation of the listeners etc.
+    behind it *is* thread-safe, so multiple threads can have their own
+    WeakReferences to the same XWeak object.
+
+    @tparam interface_type type of interface
+*/
+template <class interface_type>
+class SAL_WARN_UNUSED WeakReference : public com::sun::star::uno::WeakReferenceHelper
+{
+public:
+    /** Default ctor.  Creates an empty weak reference.
+    */
+    WeakReference()
+        : WeakReferenceHelper()
+    {
+    }
+
+    /** Copy ctor.  Initialize this reference with a hard reference.
+
+        @param rRef another hard ref
+    */
+    WeakReference(const rtl::Reference<interface_type>& rRef)
+        : WeakReferenceHelper(rRef)
+    {
+    }
+
+    /** Copy ctor.  Initialize this reference with a hard reference.
+
+        @param rRef another hard ref
+    */
+    WeakReference(interface_type& rRef)
+        : WeakReferenceHelper(&rRef)
+    {
+    }
+
+    /** Copy ctor.  Initialize this reference with a hard reference.
+
+        @param rRef another hard ref
+    */
+    WeakReference(interface_type* pRef)
+        : WeakReferenceHelper(
+              css::uno::Reference<css::uno::XWeak>(static_cast<cppu::OWeakObject*>(pRef)))
+    {
+    }
+
+    /** Releases this reference and takes over hard reference xInt.
+        If the implementation behind xInt does not support XWeak
+        or XInt is null, then this reference is null.
+
+        @param xInt another hard reference
+    */
+    WeakReference& operator=(const rtl::Reference<interface_type>& xInt)
+    {
+        WeakReferenceHelper::operator=(xInt);
+        return *this;
+    }
+
+    WeakReference& operator=(rtl::Reference<interface_type>&& xInt)
+    {
+        WeakReferenceHelper::operator=(std::move(xInt));
+        return *this;
+    }
+
+    WeakReference& operator=(interface_type* pInt)
+    {
+        WeakReferenceHelper::operator=(
+            css::uno::Reference<css::uno::XWeak>(static_cast<::cppu::OWeakObject*>(pInt)));
+        return *this;
+    }
+
+    /**  Gets a hard reference to the object.
+
+         @return hard reference or null, if the weakly referenced interface has gone
+    */
+    rtl::Reference<interface_type> SAL_CALL get() const
+    {
+        css::uno::Reference<css::uno::XInterface> xInterface = WeakReferenceHelper::get();
+        return dynamic_cast<interface_type*>(xInterface.get());
+    }
+
+    /**  Gets a hard reference to the object.
+
+         @return hard reference or null, if the weakly referenced interface has gone
+    */
+    operator ::rtl::Reference<interface_type>() const { return get(); }
+};
+}
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */
diff --git a/include/unotools/wincodepage.hxx b/include/unotools/wincodepage.hxx
new file mode 100644
index 000000000..4ec808e5c
--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/unotools/wincodepage.hxx
@@ -0,0 +1,36 @@
+/* -*- 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/.
+ */
+
+#ifndef INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_WINCODEPAGE_HXX
+#define INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_WINCODEPAGE_HXX
+
+#include <unotools/unotoolsdllapi.h>
+#include <rtl/textenc.h>
+#include <rtl/ustring.hxx>
+
+/** Map from an ISO-639 language code (and optionally ISO-3166 country/region code)
+to a text encoding of corresponding Windows ANSI or OEM codepage.
+
+@param sLanguage
+Any language-country string.  Must not be null.
+
+@param bOEM
+If true, OEM codepage is returned, otherwise ANSI.
+
+@return
+The corresponding rtl_TextEncoding value.
+If no mapping is found, RTL_TEXTENCODING_IBM_850 is returned when bOEM is true,
+RTL_TEXTENCODING_MS_1252 otherwise.
+*/
+UNOTOOLS_DLLPUBLIC rtl_TextEncoding utl_getWinTextEncodingFromLangStr(
+    const OUString& sLanguage, bool bOEM = false);
+
+#endif  // INCLUDED_UNOTOOLS_WINCODEPAGE_HXX
+
+/* vim:set shiftwidth=4 softtabstop=4 expandtab: */