/**

 * Relational pipes (library)

 * Copyright © 2019 František Kučera (Frantovo.cz, GlobalCode.info)

 *

 * This program is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify

 * it under the terms of the:

 *  - GNU Lesser General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;

 *    version 3 of the License or (at your option)

 *  - GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation;

 *    version 2 of the License.

 *

 * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,

 * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of

 * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the

 * GNU General Public License for more details.

 *

 * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License

 * along with this program. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.

 */

#pragma once

#include <memory>

#include "Iconv.h"

namespace relpipe {

namespace common {

namespace text {

/**

 * TextCodec converts text from an encoding (usually the plarform default) 

 * to our internal string representations (which is octet string consisting of UTF-8 encoded text).

 * 

 * bytes = platform encoding

 * text = our encoding

 * 

 * n.b. if the default (platform) encoding "" is used, it is required to initialize locales: setlocale(LC_ALL, "");

 */

class TextCodec {

private:

	class TextCodecInternal;

	TextCodecInternal* internal;

public:

	TextCodec();

	TextCodec(const std::string& encoding);

	virtual ~TextCodec();

	std::string fromBytes(std::string bytes);

	std::string toBytes(std::string text);

};

}

}

}