* For more information about the collation service see * the users guide. *
* Collation service provides correct sorting orders for most locales supported in ICU. * If specific data for a locale is not available, the orders eventually falls back * to the UCA sort order. *
* Sort ordering may be customized by providing your own set of rules. For more on * this subject see the * * Collation customization section of the users guide. *
* @see UCollationResult * @see UNormalizationMode * @see UCollationStrength * @see UCollationElements */ /** A collation element iterator. * For usage in C programs. */ struct collIterate; /** structure representing collation element iterator instance * @stable ICU 2.0 */ typedef struct collIterate collIterate; /** A collator. * For usage in C programs. */ struct UCollator; /** structure representing a collator object instance * @stable ICU 2.0 */ typedef struct UCollator UCollator; /** * UCOL_LESS is returned if source string is compared to be less than target * string in the u_strcoll() method. * UCOL_EQUAL is returned if source string is compared to be equal to target * string in the u_strcoll() method. * UCOL_GREATER is returned if source string is compared to be greater than * target string in the u_strcoll() method. * @see u_strcoll() *
* Possible values for a comparison result
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
typedef enum {
/** string a == string b */
UCOL_EQUAL = 0,
/** string a > string b */
UCOL_GREATER = 1,
/** string a < string b */
UCOL_LESS = -1
} UCollationResult ;
/** Enum containing attribute values for controling collation behavior.
* Here are all the allowable values. Not every attribute can take every value. The only
* universal value is UCOL_DEFAULT, which resets the attribute value to the predefined
* value for that locale
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
typedef enum {
/** accepted by most attributes */
UCOL_DEFAULT = -1,
/** Primary collation strength */
UCOL_PRIMARY = 0,
/** Secondary collation strength */
UCOL_SECONDARY = 1,
/** Tertiary collation strength */
UCOL_TERTIARY = 2,
/** Default collation strength */
UCOL_DEFAULT_STRENGTH = UCOL_TERTIARY,
UCOL_CE_STRENGTH_LIMIT,
/** Quaternary collation strength */
UCOL_QUATERNARY=3,
/** Identical collation strength */
UCOL_IDENTICAL=15,
UCOL_STRENGTH_LIMIT,
/** Turn the feature off - works for UCOL_FRENCH_COLLATION,
UCOL_CASE_LEVEL, UCOL_HIRAGANA_QUATERNARY_MODE
& UCOL_DECOMPOSITION_MODE*/
UCOL_OFF = 16,
/** Turn the feature on - works for UCOL_FRENCH_COLLATION,
UCOL_CASE_LEVEL, UCOL_HIRAGANA_QUATERNARY_MODE
& UCOL_DECOMPOSITION_MODE*/
UCOL_ON = 17,
/** Valid for UCOL_ALTERNATE_HANDLING. Alternate handling will be shifted */
UCOL_SHIFTED = 20,
/** Valid for UCOL_ALTERNATE_HANDLING. Alternate handling will be non ignorable */
UCOL_NON_IGNORABLE = 21,
/** Valid for UCOL_CASE_FIRST -
lower case sorts before upper case */
UCOL_LOWER_FIRST = 24,
/** upper case sorts before lower case */
UCOL_UPPER_FIRST = 25,
UCOL_ATTRIBUTE_VALUE_COUNT
} UColAttributeValue;
/**
* Base letter represents a primary difference. Set comparison
* level to UCOL_PRIMARY to ignore secondary and tertiary differences.
* Use this to set the strength of a Collator object.
* Example of primary difference, "abc" < "abd"
*
* Diacritical differences on the same base letter represent a secondary
* difference. Set comparison level to UCOL_SECONDARY to ignore tertiary
* differences. Use this to set the strength of a Collator object.
* Example of secondary difference, "ä" >> "a".
*
* Uppercase and lowercase versions of the same character represents a
* tertiary difference. Set comparison level to UCOL_TERTIARY to include
* all comparison differences. Use this to set the strength of a Collator
* object.
* Example of tertiary difference, "abc" <<< "ABC".
*
* Two characters are considered "identical" when they have the same
* unicode spellings. UCOL_IDENTICAL.
* For example, "ä" == "ä".
*
* UCollationStrength is also used to determine the strength of sort keys
* generated from UCollator objects
* These values can be now found in the UColAttributeValue enum.
* @stable ICU 2.0
**/
typedef UColAttributeValue UCollationStrength;
/** Attributes that collation service understands. All the attributes can take UCOL_DEFAULT
* value, as well as the values specific to each one.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
typedef enum {
/** Attribute for direction of secondary weights - used in French.\
* Acceptable values are UCOL_ON, which results in secondary weights
* being considered backwards and UCOL_OFF which treats secondary
* weights in the order they appear.*/
UCOL_FRENCH_COLLATION,
/** Attribute for handling variable elements.\
* Acceptable values are UCOL_NON_IGNORABLE (default)
* which treats all the codepoints with non-ignorable
* primary weights in the same way,
* and UCOL_SHIFTED which causes codepoints with primary
* weights that are equal or below the variable top value
* to be ignored on primary level and moved to the quaternary
* level.*/
UCOL_ALTERNATE_HANDLING,
/** Controls the ordering of upper and lower case letters.\
* Acceptable values are UCOL_OFF (default), which orders
* upper and lower case letters in accordance to their tertiary
* weights, UCOL_UPPER_FIRST which forces upper case letters to
* sort before lower case letters, and UCOL_LOWER_FIRST which does
* the opposite. */
UCOL_CASE_FIRST,
/** Controls whether an extra case level (positioned before the third
* level) is generated or not.\ Acceptable values are UCOL_OFF (default),
* when case level is not generated, and UCOL_ON which causes the case
* level to be generated.\ Contents of the case level are affected by
* the value of UCOL_CASE_FIRST attribute.\ A simple way to ignore
* accent differences in a string is to set the strength to UCOL_PRIMARY
* and enable case level. */
UCOL_CASE_LEVEL,
/** Controls whether the normalization check and necessary normalizations
* are performed.\ When set to UCOL_OFF (default) no normalization check
* is performed.\ The correctness of the result is guaranteed only if the
* input data is in so-called FCD form (see users manual for more info).\
* When set to UCOL_ON, an incremental check is performed to see whether the input data
* is in the FCD form.\ If the data is not in the FCD form, incremental
* NFD normalization is performed. */
UCOL_NORMALIZATION_MODE,
/** An alias for UCOL_NORMALIZATION_MODE attribute */
UCOL_DECOMPOSITION_MODE = UCOL_NORMALIZATION_MODE,
/** The strength attribute.\ Can be either UCOL_PRIMARY, UCOL_SECONDARY,
* UCOL_TERTIARY, UCOL_QUATERNARY or UCOL_IDENTICAL.\ The usual strength
* for most locales (except Japanese) is tertiary.\ Quaternary strength
* is useful when combined with shifted setting for alternate handling
* attribute and for JIS x 4061 collation, when it is used to distinguish
* between Katakana and Hiragana (this is achieved by setting the
* UCOL_HIRAGANA_QUATERNARY mode to on.\ Otherwise, quaternary level
* is affected only by the number of non ignorable code points in
* the string.\ Identical strength is rarely useful, as it amounts
* to codepoints of the NFD form of the string. */
UCOL_STRENGTH,
/** when turned on, this attribute
* positions Hiragana before all
* non-ignorables on quaternary level
* This is a sneaky way to produce JIS
* sort order */
UCOL_HIRAGANA_QUATERNARY_MODE,
UCOL_ATTRIBUTE_COUNT
} UColAttribute;
/** Options for retrieving the rule string
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
typedef enum {
/** Retrieve tailoring only */
UCOL_TAILORING_ONLY,
/** Retrieve UCA rules and tailoring */
UCOL_FULL_RULES
} UColRuleOption ;
/**
* Open a UCollator for comparing strings.
* The UCollator pointer is used in all the calls to the Collation
* service. After finished, collator must be disposed of by calling
* \Ref{ucol_close}.
* @param loc The locale containing the required collation rules.
* Special values for locales can be passed in -
* if NULL is passed for the locale, the default locale
* collation rules will be used. If empty string ("") or
* "root" are passed, UCA rules will be used.
* @param status A pointer to an UErrorCode to receive any errors
* @return A pointer to a UCollator, or 0 if an error occurred.
* @see ucol_openRules
* @see ucol_safeClone
* @see ucol_close
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UCollator* U_EXPORT2
ucol_open(const char *loc, UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Produce an UCollator instance according to the rules supplied.
* The rules are used to change the default ordering, defined in the
* UCA in a process called tailoring. The resulting UCollator pointer
* can be used in the same way as the one obtained by \Ref{ucol_strcoll}.
* @param rules A string describing the collation rules. For the syntax
* of the rules please see users guide.
* @param rulesLength The length of rules, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @param normalizationMode The normalization mode: One of
* UCOL_OFF (expect the text to not need normalization),
* UCOL_ON (normalize), or
* UCOL_DEFAULT (set the mode according to the rules)
* @param strength The default collation strength; one of UCOL_PRIMARY, UCOL_SECONDARY,
* UCOL_TERTIARY, UCOL_IDENTICAL,UCOL_DEFAULT_STRENGTH - can be also set in the rules.
* @param parseError A pointer to UParseError to recieve information about errors
* occurred during parsing. This argument can currently be set
* to NULL, but at users own risk. Please provide a real structure.
* @param status A pointer to an UErrorCode to receive any errors
* @return A pointer to a UCollator.\ It is not guaranteed that NULL be returned in case
* of error - please use status argument to check for errors.
* @see ucol_open
* @see ucol_safeClone
* @see ucol_close
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UCollator* U_EXPORT2
ucol_openRules( const UChar *rules,
int32_t rulesLength,
UColAttributeValue normalizationMode,
UCollationStrength strength,
UParseError *parseError,
UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Close a UCollator.
* Once closed, a UCollator should not be used.\ Every open collator should
* be closed.\ Otherwise, a memory leak will result.
* @param coll The UCollator to close.
* @see ucol_open
* @see ucol_openRules
* @see ucol_safeClone
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucol_close(UCollator *coll);
/**
* Compare two strings.
* The strings will be compared using the options already specified.
* @param coll The UCollator containing the comparison rules.
* @param source The source string.
* @param sourceLength The length of source, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @param target The target string.
* @param targetLength The length of target, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @return The result of comparing the strings; one of UCOL_EQUAL,
* UCOL_GREATER, UCOL_LESS
* @see ucol_greater
* @see ucol_greaterOrEqual
* @see ucol_equal
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UCollationResult U_EXPORT2
ucol_strcoll( const UCollator *coll,
const UChar *source,
int32_t sourceLength,
const UChar *target,
int32_t targetLength);
/**
* Determine if one string is greater than another.
* This function is equivalent to \Ref{ucol_strcoll} == UCOL_GREATER
* @param coll The UCollator containing the comparison rules.
* @param source The source string.
* @param sourceLength The length of source, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @param target The target string.
* @param targetLength The length of target, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @return TRUE if source is greater than target, FALSE otherwise.
* @see ucol_strcoll
* @see ucol_greaterOrEqual
* @see ucol_equal
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UBool U_EXPORT2
ucol_greater(const UCollator *coll,
const UChar *source, int32_t sourceLength,
const UChar *target, int32_t targetLength);
/**
* Determine if one string is greater than or equal to another.
* This function is equivalent to \Ref{ucol_strcoll} != UCOL_LESS
* @param coll The UCollator containing the comparison rules.
* @param source The source string.
* @param sourceLength The length of source, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @param target The target string.
* @param targetLength The length of target, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @return TRUE if source is greater than or equal to target, FALSE otherwise.
* @see ucol_strcoll
* @see ucol_greater
* @see ucol_equal
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UBool U_EXPORT2
ucol_greaterOrEqual(const UCollator *coll,
const UChar *source, int32_t sourceLength,
const UChar *target, int32_t targetLength);
/**
* Compare two strings for equality.
* This function is equivalent to \Ref{ucol_strcoll} == UCOL_EQUAL
* @param coll The UCollator containing the comparison rules.
* @param source The source string.
* @param sourceLength The length of source, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @param target The target string.
* @param targetLength The length of target, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @return TRUE if source is equal to target, FALSE otherwise
* @see ucol_strcoll
* @see ucol_greater
* @see ucol_greaterOrEqual
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UBool U_EXPORT2
ucol_equal(const UCollator *coll,
const UChar *source, int32_t sourceLength,
const UChar *target, int32_t targetLength);
/**
* Compare two UTF-8 encoded trings.
* The strings will be compared using the options already specified.
* @param coll The UCollator containing the comparison rules.
* @param source The source string.
* @param sourceLength The length of source, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @param target The target string.
* @param targetLength The length of target, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @return The result of comparing the strings; one of UCOL_EQUAL,
* UCOL_GREATER, UCOL_LESS
* @see ucol_strcoll
* @draft ICU 2.6
*/
U_CAPI UCollationResult U_EXPORT2
ucol_strcollIter( const UCollator *coll,
UCharIterator *sIter,
UCharIterator *tIter,
UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Get the collation strength used in a UCollator.
* The strength influences how strings are compared.
* @param coll The UCollator to query.
* @return The collation strength; one of UCOL_PRIMARY, UCOL_SECONDARY,
* UCOL_TERTIARY, UCOL_QUATERNARY, UCOL_IDENTICAL
* @see ucol_setStrength
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UCollationStrength U_EXPORT2
ucol_getStrength(const UCollator *coll);
/**
* Set the collation strength used in a UCollator.
* The strength influences how strings are compared.
* @param coll The UCollator to set.
* @param strength The desired collation strength; one of UCOL_PRIMARY,
* UCOL_SECONDARY, UCOL_TERTIARY, UCOL_QUATERNARY, UCOL_IDENTICAL, UCOL_DEFAULT
* @see ucol_getStrength
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucol_setStrength(UCollator *coll,
UCollationStrength strength);
/**
* Get the display name for a UCollator.
* The display name is suitable for presentation to a user.
* @param objLoc The locale of the collator in question.
* @param dispLoc The locale for display.
* @param result A pointer to a buffer to receive the attribute.
* @param resultLength The maximum size of result.
* @param status A pointer to an UErrorCode to receive any errors
* @return The total buffer size needed; if greater than resultLength,
* the output was truncated.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_getDisplayName( const char *objLoc,
const char *dispLoc,
UChar *result,
int32_t resultLength,
UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Get a locale for which collation rules are available.
* A UCollator in a locale returned by this function will perform the correct
* collation for the locale.
* @param index The index of the desired locale.
* @return A locale for which collation rules are available, or 0 if none.
* @see ucol_countAvailable
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI const char* U_EXPORT2
ucol_getAvailable(int32_t index);
/**
* Determine how many locales have collation rules available.
* This function is most useful as determining the loop ending condition for
* calls to \Ref{ucol_getAvailable}.
* @return The number of locales for which collation rules are available.
* @see ucol_getAvailable
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_countAvailable(void);
/**
* Get the collation rules from a UCollator.
* The rules will follow the rule syntax.
* @param coll The UCollator to query.
* @param length
* @return The collation rules.
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI const UChar* U_EXPORT2
ucol_getRules( const UCollator *coll,
int32_t *length);
/**
* Get a sort key for a string from a UCollator.
* Sort keys may be compared using strcmp.
* @param coll The UCollator containing the collation rules.
* @param source The string to transform.
* @param sourecLength The length of source, or -1 if null-terminated.
* @param result A pointer to a buffer to receive the attribute.
* @param resultLength The maximum size of result.
* @return The size needed to fully store the sort key..
* @see ucol_keyHashCode
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_getSortKey(const UCollator *coll,
const UChar *source,
int32_t sourceLength,
uint8_t *result,
int32_t resultLength);
/** Gets the next count bytes of a sort key. Caller needs
* to preserve state array between calls and to provide
* the same type of UCharIterator set with the same string.
* The destination buffer provided must be big enough to store
* the number of requested bytes. Generated sortkey is not
* compatible with sortkeys generated using ucol_getSortKey
* API, since we don't do any compression. If uncompressed
* sortkeys are required, this API can be used.
* @param coll The UCollator containing the collation rules.
* @param iter UCharIterator containing the string we need
* the sort key to be calculated for.
* @param state Opaque state of sortkey iteration.
* @param dest Buffer to hold the resulting sortkey part
* @param count number of sort key bytes required.
* @param status error code indicator.
* @return the actual number of bytes of a sortkey. It can be
* smaller than count if we have reached the end of
* the sort key.
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_nextSortKeyPart(const UCollator *coll,
UCharIterator *iter,
uint32_t state[2],
uint8_t *dest, int32_t count,
UErrorCode *status);
/** enum that is taken by ucol_getBound API
* See below for explanation
* do not change the values assigned to the
* members of this enum. Underlying code
* depends on them having these numbers
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
typedef enum {
/** lower bound */
UCOL_BOUND_LOWER = 0,
/** upper bound that will match strings of exact size */
UCOL_BOUND_UPPER = 1,
/** upper bound that will match all the strings that have the same initial substring as the given string */
UCOL_BOUND_UPPER_LONG = 2,
UCOL_BOUND_VALUE_COUNT
} UColBoundMode;
/**
* Produce a bound for a given sortkey and a number of levels.
* Return value is always the number of bytes needed, regardless of
* whether the result buffer was big enough or even valid.
* Resulting bounds can be used to produce a range of strings that are
* between upper and lower bounds. For example, if bounds are produced
* for a sortkey of string "smith", strings between upper and lower
* bounds with one level would include "Smith", "SMITH", "sMiTh".
* There are two upper bounds that can be produced. If UCOL_BOUND_UPPER
* is produced, strings matched would be as above. However, if bound
* produced using UCOL_BOUND_UPPER_LONG is used, the above example will
* also match "Smithsonian" and similar.
* For more on usage, see example in cintltst/capitst.c in procedure
* TestBounds.
* Sort keys may be compared using strcmp.
* @param source The source sortkey.
* @param sourceLength The length of source, or -1 if null-terminated.
* (If an unmodified sortkey is passed, it is always null
* terminated).
* @param boundType Type of bound required. It can be UCOL_BOUND_LOWER, which
* produces a lower inclusive bound, UCOL_BOUND_UPPER, that
* produces upper bound that matches strings of the same length
* or UCOL_BOUND_UPPER_LONG that matches strings that have the
* same starting substring as the source string.
* @param noOfLevels Number of levels required in the resulting bound (for most
* uses, the recommended value is 1). See users guide for
* explanation on number of levels a sortkey can have.
* @param result A pointer to a buffer to receive the resulting sortkey.
* @param resultLength The maximum size of result.
* @param status Used for returning error code if something went wrong. If the
* number of levels requested is higher than the number of levels
* in the source key, a warning (U_SORT_KEY_TOO_SHORT_WARNING) is
* issued.
* @return The size needed to fully store the bound.
* @see ucol_keyHashCode
* @draft ICU 2.1
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_getBound(const uint8_t *source,
int32_t sourceLength,
UColBoundMode boundType,
uint32_t noOfLevels,
uint8_t *result,
int32_t resultLength,
UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Gets the version information for a Collator.
* @param coll The UCollator to query.
* @param info the version # information, the result will be filled in
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucol_getVersion(const UCollator* coll, UVersionInfo info);
/**
* Merge two sort keys. The levels are merged with their corresponding counterparts
* (primaries with primaries, secondaries with secondaries etc.). Between the values
* from the same level a separator is inserted.
* example (uncompressed):
* 191B1D 01 050505 01 910505 00 and 1F2123 01 050505 01 910505 00
* will be merged as
* 191B1D 02 1F212301 050505 02 050505 01 910505 02 910505 00
* This allows for concatenating of first and last names for sorting, among other things.
* If the destination buffer is not big enough, the results are undefined.
* If any of source lengths are zero or any of source pointers are NULL/undefined,
* result is of size zero.
* @param src1 pointer to the first sortkey
* @param src1Length length of the first sortkey
* @param src2 pointer to the second sortkey
* @param src2Length length of the second sortkey
* @param dest buffer to hold the result
* @param destCapacity size of the buffer for the result
* @return size of the result. If the buffer is big enough size is always
* src1Length+src2Length-1
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_mergeSortkeys(const uint8_t *src1, int32_t src1Length,
const uint8_t *src2, int32_t src2Length,
uint8_t *dest, int32_t destCapacity);
/**
* Universal attribute setter
* @param coll collator which attributes are to be changed
* @param attr attribute type
* @param value attribute value
* @param status to indicate whether the operation went on smoothly or there were errors
* @see UColAttribute
* @see UColAttributeValue
* @see ucol_getAttribute
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucol_setAttribute(UCollator *coll, UColAttribute attr, UColAttributeValue value, UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Universal attribute getter
* @param coll collator which attributes are to be changed
* @param attr attribute type
* @return attribute value
* @param status to indicate whether the operation went on smoothly or there were errors
* @see UColAttribute
* @see UColAttributeValue
* @see ucol_setAttribute
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UColAttributeValue U_EXPORT2
ucol_getAttribute(const UCollator *coll, UColAttribute attr, UErrorCode *status);
/** Variable top
* is a two byte primary value which causes all the codepoints with primary values that
* are less or equal than the variable top to be shifted when alternate handling is set
* to UCOL_SHIFTED.
* Sets the variable top to a collation element value of a string supplied.
* @param coll collator which variable top needs to be changed
* @param varTop one or more (if contraction) UChars to which the variable top should be set
* @param len length of variable top string. If -1 it is considered to be zero terminated.
* @param status error code. If error code is set, the return value is undefined.
* Errors set by this function are:
* U_CE_NOT_FOUND_ERROR if more than one character was passed and there is no such
* a contraction
* U_PRIMARY_TOO_LONG_ERROR if the primary for the variable top has more than two bytes
* @return a 32 bit value containing the value of the variable top in upper 16 bits.
* Lower 16 bits are undefined
* @see ucol_getVariableTop
* @see ucol_restoreVariableTop
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI uint32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_setVariableTop(UCollator *coll,
const UChar *varTop, int32_t len,
UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Gets the variable top value of a Collator.
* Lower 16 bits are undefined and should be ignored.
* @param coll collator which variable top needs to be retrieved
* @param status error code (not changed by function). If error code is set,
* the return value is undefined.
* @return the variable top value of a Collator.
* @see ucol_setVariableTop
* @see ucol_restoreVariableTop
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI uint32_t U_EXPORT2 ucol_getVariableTop(const UCollator *coll, UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Sets the variable top to a collation element value supplied. Variable top is
* set to the upper 16 bits.
* Lower 16 bits are ignored.
* @param coll collator which variable top needs to be changed
* @param varTop CE value, as returned by ucol_setVariableTop or ucol)getVariableTop
* @param status error code (not changed by function)
* @see ucol_getVariableTop
* @see ucol_setVariableTop
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI void U_EXPORT2
ucol_restoreVariableTop(UCollator *coll, const uint32_t varTop, UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Thread safe cloning operation. The result is a clone of a given collator.
* @param coll collator to be cloned
* @param stackBuffer user allocated space for the new clone.
* If NULL new memory will be allocated.
* If buffer is not large enough, new memory will be allocated.
* Clients can use the U_COL_SAFECLONE_BUFFERSIZE.
* This will probably be enough to avoid memory allocations.
* @param pBufferSize pointer to size of allocated space.
* If *pBufferSize == 0, a sufficient size for use in cloning will
* be returned ('pre-flighting')
* If *pBufferSize is not enough for a stack-based safe clone,
* new memory will be allocated.
* @param status to indicate whether the operation went on smoothly or there were errors
* An informational status value, U_SAFECLONE_ALLOCATED_ERROR, is used if any
* allocations were necessary.
* @return pointer to the new clone
* @see ucol_open
* @see ucol_openRules
* @see ucol_close
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI UCollator* U_EXPORT2
ucol_safeClone(const UCollator *coll,
void *stackBuffer,
int32_t *pBufferSize,
UErrorCode *status);
/** default memory size for the new clone. It needs to be this large for os/400 large pointers
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
#define U_COL_SAFECLONE_BUFFERSIZE 512
/**
* Returns current rules. Delta defines whether full rules are returned or just the tailoring.
* Returns number of UChars needed to store rules. If buffer is NULL or bufferLen is not enough
* to store rules, will store up to available space.
* @param coll collator to get the rules from
* @param delta one of UCOL_TAILORING_ONLY, UCOL_FULL_RULES.
* @param buffer buffer to store the result in. If NULL, you'll get no rules.
* @param bufferLen lenght of buffer to store rules in. If less then needed you'll get only the part that fits in.
* @return current rules
* @stable ICU 2.0
*/
U_CAPI int32_t U_EXPORT2
ucol_getRulesEx(const UCollator *coll, UColRuleOption delta, UChar *buffer, int32_t bufferLen);
/**
* gets the locale name of the collator. If the collator
* is instantiated from the rules, then this function returns
* NULL.
* @param coll The UCollator for which the locale is needed
* @param type You can choose between requested, valid and actual
* locale. For description see the definition of
* ULocDataLocaleType in uloc.h
* @param status error code of the operation
* @return real locale name from which the collation data comes.
* If the collator was instantiated from rules, returns
* NULL.
* @draft ICU 2.1
*/
U_CAPI const char * U_EXPORT2
ucol_getLocale(const UCollator *coll, ULocDataLocaleType type, UErrorCode *status);
/**
* Get an Unicode set that contains all the characters and sequences tailored in
* this collator. The result must be disposed of by using uset_close.
* @param coll The UCollator for which we want to get tailored chars
* @param status error code of the operation
* @return a pointer to newly created USet. Must be be disposed by using uset_close
* @see ucol_openRules
* @see uset_close
* @draft ICU 2.4
*/
U_CAPI USet * U_EXPORT2
ucol_getTailoredSet(const UCollator *coll, UErrorCode *status);
#endif /* #if !UCONFIG_NO_COLLATION */
#endif