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+<td align="right" valign="center"><img src="logo32.png" align="right" width="64" height="32" border="0"></td></tr></table><h1 align=center>TQTextCodec Class Reference</h1>
+
+<p>The TQTextCodec class provides conversion between text encodings.
+<a href="#details">More...</a>
+<p>Almost all the functions in this class are <a href="threads.html#reentrant">reentrant</a> when TQt is built with thread support. The exceptions are <a href="#~TQTextCodec"><b>~TQTextCodec</b></a>(), <a href="#setCodecForTr"><b>setCodecForTr</b></a>(), <a href="#setCodecForCStrings"><b>setCodecForCStrings</b></a>(), and <a href="#TQTextCodec"><b>TQTextCodec</b></a>().
+</p><p><tt>#include &lt;<a href="qtextcodec-h.html">ntqtextcodec.h</a>&gt;</tt>
+<p>Inherited by <a href="ntqbig5codec.html">TQBig5Codec</a>, <a href="qbig5hkscscodec.html">TQBig5hkscsCodec</a>, <a href="ntqeucjpcodec.html">TQEucJpCodec</a>, <a href="ntqeuckrcodec.html">TQEucKrCodec</a>, <a href="ntqgb18030codec.html">TQGb18030Codec</a>, <a href="ntqjiscodec.html">TQJisCodec</a>, <a href="qhebrewcodec.html">TQHebrewCodec</a>, <a href="ntqsjiscodec.html">TQSjisCodec</a>, and <a href="ntqtsciicodec.html">TQTsciiCodec</a>.
+<p><a href="qtextcodec-members.html">List of all member functions.</a>
+<h2>Public Members</h2>
+<ul>
+<li class=fn>virtual <a href="#~TQTextCodec"><b>~TQTextCodec</b></a> ()</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual const char * <a href="#name"><b>name</b></a> () const = 0</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual const char * <a href="#mimeName"><b>mimeName</b></a> () const</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual int <a href="#mibEnum"><b>mibEnum</b></a> () const = 0</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual TQTextDecoder * <a href="#makeDecoder"><b>makeDecoder</b></a> () const</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual TQTextEncoder * <a href="#makeEncoder"><b>makeEncoder</b></a> () const</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual TQString <a href="#toUnicode"><b>toUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars, int&nbsp;len ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual TQCString <a href="#fromUnicode"><b>fromUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;TQString&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;uc, int&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;lenInOut ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>TQCString <a href="#fromUnicode-2"><b>fromUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;TQString&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;uc ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>TQString <a href="#toUnicode-2"><b>toUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;TQByteArray&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a, int&nbsp;len ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>TQString <a href="#toUnicode-3"><b>toUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;TQByteArray&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>TQString <a href="#toUnicode-4"><b>toUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;TQCString&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a, int&nbsp;len ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>TQString <a href="#toUnicode-5"><b>toUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;TQCString&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>TQString <a href="#toUnicode-6"><b>toUnicode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual bool <a href="#canEncode"><b>canEncode</b></a> ( TQChar&nbsp;ch ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual bool <a href="#canEncode-2"><b>canEncode</b></a> ( const&nbsp;TQString&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;s ) const</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual int <a href="#heuristicContentMatch"><b>heuristicContentMatch</b></a> ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars, int&nbsp;len ) const = 0</li>
+<li class=fn>virtual int <a href="#heuristicNameMatch"><b>heuristicNameMatch</b></a> ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;hint ) const</li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Static Public Members</h2>
+<ul>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#loadCharmap"><b>loadCharmap</b></a> ( TQIODevice&nbsp;*&nbsp;iod )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#loadCharmapFile"><b>loadCharmapFile</b></a> ( TQString&nbsp;filename )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#codecForMib"><b>codecForMib</b></a> ( int&nbsp;mib )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#codecForName"><b>codecForName</b></a> ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;name, int&nbsp;accuracy = 0 )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#codecForContent"><b>codecForContent</b></a> ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars, int&nbsp;len )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#codecForIndex"><b>codecForIndex</b></a> ( int&nbsp;i )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#codecForLocale"><b>codecForLocale</b></a> ()</li>
+<li class=fn>void <a href="#setCodecForLocale"><b>setCodecForLocale</b></a> ( TQTextCodec&nbsp;*&nbsp;c )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#codecForTr"><b>codecForTr</b></a> ()</li>
+<li class=fn>void <a href="#setCodecForTr"><b>setCodecForTr</b></a> ( TQTextCodec&nbsp;*&nbsp;c )</li>
+<li class=fn>TQTextCodec * <a href="#codecForCStrings"><b>codecForCStrings</b></a> ()</li>
+<li class=fn>void <a href="#setCodecForCStrings"><b>setCodecForCStrings</b></a> ( TQTextCodec&nbsp;*&nbsp;c )</li>
+<li class=fn>void <a href="#deleteAllCodecs"><b>deleteAllCodecs</b></a> ()</li>
+<li class=fn>const char * <a href="#locale"><b>locale</b></a> ()</li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Protected Members</h2>
+<ul>
+<li class=fn><a href="#TQTextCodec"><b>TQTextCodec</b></a> ()</li>
+</ul>
+<h2>Static Protected Members</h2>
+<ul>
+<li class=fn>int <a href="#simpleHeuristicNameMatch"><b>simpleHeuristicNameMatch</b></a> ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;name, const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;hint )</li>
+</ul>
+<hr><a name="details"></a><h2>Detailed Description</h2>
+
+
+The TQTextCodec class provides conversion between text encodings.
+
+
+<p> TQt uses Unicode to store, draw and manipulate strings. In many
+situations you may wish to deal with data that uses a different
+encoding. For example, most Japanese documents are still stored in
+Shift-JIS or ISO2022, while Russian users often have their
+documents in KOI8-R or CP1251.
+<p> TQt provides a set of TQTextCodec classes to help with converting
+non-Unicode formats to and from Unicode. You can also create your
+own codec classes (<a href="#subclassing">see later</a>).
+<p> The supported encodings are:
+<ul>
+<li> Latin1
+<li> Big5 -- Chinese
+<li> Big5-HKSCS -- Chinese
+<li> eucJP -- Japanese
+<li> eucKR -- Korean
+<li> GB2312 -- Chinese
+<li> GBK -- Chinese
+<li> GB18030 -- Chinese
+<li> JIS7 -- Japanese
+<li> Shift-JIS -- Japanese
+<li> TSCII -- Tamil
+<li> utf8 -- Unicode, 8-bit
+<li> utf16 -- Unicode
+<li> KOI8-R -- Russian
+<li> KOI8-U -- Ukrainian
+<li> ISO8859-1 -- Western
+<li> ISO8859-2 -- Central European
+<li> ISO8859-3 -- Central European
+<li> ISO8859-4 -- Baltic
+<li> ISO8859-5 -- Cyrillic
+<li> ISO8859-6 -- Arabic
+<li> ISO8859-7 -- Greek
+<li> ISO8859-8 -- Hebrew, visually ordered
+<li> ISO8859-8-i -- Hebrew, logically ordered
+<li> ISO8859-9 -- Turkish
+<li> ISO8859-10
+<li> ISO8859-13
+<li> ISO8859-14
+<li> ISO8859-15 -- Western
+<li> IBM 850
+<li> IBM 866
+<li> CP874
+<li> CP1250 -- Central European
+<li> CP1251 -- Cyrillic
+<li> CP1252 -- Western
+<li> CP1253 -- Greek
+<li> CP1254 -- Turkish
+<li> CP1255 -- Hebrew
+<li> CP1256 -- Arabic
+<li> CP1257 -- Baltic
+<li> CP1258
+<li> Apple Roman
+<li> TIS-620 -- Thai
+</ul>
+<p> TQTextCodecs can be used as follows to convert some locally encoded
+string to Unicode. Suppose you have some string encoded in Russian
+KOI8-R encoding, and want to convert it to Unicode. The simple way
+to do this is:
+<p> <pre>
+ <a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a> locallyEncoded = "..."; // text to convert
+ TQTextCodec *codec = TQTextCodec::<a href="#codecForName">codecForName</a>("KOI8-R"); // get the codec for KOI8-R
+ <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> unicodeString = codec-&gt;<a href="#toUnicode">toUnicode</a>( locallyEncoded );
+ </pre>
+
+<p> After this, <tt>unicodeString</tt> holds the text converted to Unicode.
+Converting a string from Unicode to the local encoding is just as
+easy:
+<p> <pre>
+ <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> unicodeString = "..."; // any Unicode text
+ TQTextCodec *codec = TQTextCodec::<a href="#codecForName">codecForName</a>("KOI8-R"); // get the codec for KOI8-R
+ <a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a> locallyEncoded = codec-&gt;<a href="#fromUnicode">fromUnicode</a>( unicodeString );
+ </pre>
+
+<p> Some care must be taken when trying to convert the data in chunks,
+for example, when receiving it over a network. In such cases it is
+possible that a multi-byte character will be split over two
+chunks. At best this might result in the loss of a character and
+at worst cause the entire conversion to fail.
+<p> The approach to use in these situations is to create a <a href="qtextdecoder.html">TQTextDecoder</a>
+object for the codec and use this TQTextDecoder for the whole
+decoding process, as shown below:
+<p> <pre>
+ TQTextCodec *codec = TQTextCodec::<a href="#codecForName">codecForName</a>( "Shift-JIS" );
+ <a href="qtextdecoder.html">TQTextDecoder</a> *decoder = codec-&gt;<a href="#makeDecoder">makeDecoder</a>();
+
+ <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> unicodeString;
+ while( receiving_data ) {
+ <a href="qbytearray.html">TQByteArray</a> chunk = new_data;
+ unicodeString += decoder-&gt;<a href="qtextdecoder.html#toUnicode">toUnicode</a>( chunk.<a href="ntqmemarray.html#data">data</a>(), chunk.length() );
+ }
+ </pre>
+
+<p> The TQTextDecoder object maintains state between chunks and therefore
+works correctly even if a multi-byte character is split between
+chunks.
+<p> <a name="subclassing"></a>
+<h3> Creating your own Codec class
+</h3>
+<a name="1"></a><p> Support for new text encodings can be added to TQt by creating
+TQTextCodec subclasses.
+<p> Built-in codecs can be overridden by custom codecs since more
+recently created TQTextCodec objects take precedence over earlier
+ones.
+<p> You may find it more convenient to make your codec class available
+as a plugin; see the <a href="plugins-howto.html">plugin
+ documentation</a> for more details.
+<p> The abstract virtual functions describe the encoder to the
+system and the coder is used as required in the different
+text file formats supported by <a href="ntqtextstream.html">TQTextStream</a>, and under X11, for the
+locale-specific character input and output.
+<p> To add support for another 8-bit encoding to TQt, make a subclass
+of TQTextCodec and implement at least the following methods:
+<p> <pre>
+ const char* name() const
+ </pre>
+
+Return the official name for the encoding.
+<p> <pre>
+ int mibEnum() const
+ </pre>
+
+Return the MIB enum for the encoding if it is listed in the
+<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets">IANA character-sets encoding file</a>.
+<p> If the encoding is multi-byte then it will have "state"; that is,
+the interpretation of some bytes will be dependent on some preceding
+bytes. For such encodings, you must implement:
+<p> <pre>
+ <a href="qtextdecoder.html">TQTextDecoder</a>* makeDecoder() const
+ </pre>
+
+Return a <a href="qtextdecoder.html">TQTextDecoder</a> that remembers incomplete multi-byte sequence
+prefixes or other required state.
+<p> If the encoding does <em>not</em> require state, you should implement:
+<p> <pre>
+ <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> toUnicode(const char* chars, int len) const
+ </pre>
+
+Converts <em>len</em> characters from <em>chars</em> to Unicode.
+<p> The base TQTextCodec class has default implementations of the above
+two functions, <em>but they are mutually recursive</em>, so you must
+re-implement at least one of them, or both for improved efficiency.
+<p> For conversion from Unicode to 8-bit encodings, it is rarely necessary
+to maintain state. However, two functions similar to the two above
+are used for encoding:
+<p> <pre>
+ <a href="qtextencoder.html">TQTextEncoder</a>* makeEncoder() const
+ </pre>
+
+Return a <a href="qtextencoder.html">TQTextEncoder</a>.
+<p> <pre>
+ <a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a> fromUnicode(const <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a>&amp; uc, int&amp; lenInOut ) const
+ </pre>
+
+Converts <em>lenInOut</em> characters (of type <a href="qchar.html">TQChar</a>) from the start of
+the string <em>uc</em>, returning a <a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a> result, and also returning
+the <a href="ntqcstring.html#length">length</a> of the result in
+<em>lenInOut</em>.
+<p> Again, these are mutually recursive so only one needs to be implemented,
+or both if greater efficiency is possible.
+<p> Finally, you must implement:
+<p> <pre>
+ int heuristicContentMatch(const char* chars, int len) const
+ </pre>
+
+Gives a value indicating how likely it is that <em>len</em> characters
+from <em>chars</em> are in the encoding.
+<p> A good model for this function is the
+TQWindowsLocalCodec::heuristicContentMatch function found in the TQt
+sources.
+<p> A TQTextCodec subclass might have improved performance if you also
+re-implement:
+<p> <pre>
+ bool canEncode( <a href="qchar.html">TQChar</a> ) const
+ </pre>
+
+Test if a Unicode character can be encoded.
+<p> <pre>
+ bool canEncode( const <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a>&amp; ) const
+ </pre>
+
+Test if a string of Unicode characters can be encoded.
+<p> <pre>
+ int heuristicNameMatch(const char* hint) const
+ </pre>
+
+Test if a possibly non-standard name is referring to the codec.
+<p> Codecs can also be created as <a href="plugins-howto.html">plugins</a>.
+<p>See also <a href="i18n.html">Internationalization with TQt</a>.
+
+<hr><h2>Member Function Documentation</h2>
+<h3 class=fn><a name="TQTextCodec"></a>TQTextCodec::TQTextCodec ()<tt> [protected]</tt>
+</h3><p><b>Warning:</b> This function is <i>not</i> <a href="threads.html#reentrant">reentrant</a>.</p>
+
+
+<p> Constructs a TQTextCodec, and gives it the highest precedence. The
+TQTextCodec should always be constructed on the heap (i.e. with <tt>new</tt>). TQt takes ownership and will delete it when the application
+terminates.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a name="~TQTextCodec"></a>TQTextCodec::~TQTextCodec ()<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3><p><b>Warning:</b> This function is <i>not</i> <a href="threads.html#reentrant">reentrant</a>.</p>
+
+
+<p> Destroys the TQTextCodec. Note that you should not delete codecs
+yourself: once created they become TQt's responsibility.
+
+<h3 class=fn>bool <a name="canEncode"></a>TQTextCodec::canEncode ( <a href="qchar.html">TQChar</a>&nbsp;ch ) const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+Returns TRUE if the Unicode character <em>ch</em> can be fully encoded
+with this codec; otherwise returns FALSE. The default
+implementation tests if the result of <a href="#toUnicode">toUnicode</a>(fromUnicode(ch))
+is the original <em>ch</em>. Subclasses may be able to improve the
+efficiency.
+
+<h3 class=fn>bool <a name="canEncode-2"></a>TQTextCodec::canEncode ( const&nbsp;<a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;s ) const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
+<p> <em>s</em> contains the string being tested for encode-ability.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="codecForCStrings"></a>TQTextCodec::codecForCStrings ()<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+
+<p> Returns the codec used by <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> to convert to and from const
+char* and TQCStrings. If this function returns 0 (the default),
+TQString assumes Latin-1.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#setCodecForCStrings">setCodecForCStrings</a>().
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="codecForContent"></a>TQTextCodec::codecForContent ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars, int&nbsp;len )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Searches all installed TQTextCodec objects, returning the one which
+most recognizes the given content. May return 0.
+<p> Note that this is often a poor choice, since character encodings
+often use most of the available character sequences, and so only
+by linguistic analysis could a true match be made.
+<p> <em>chars</em> contains the string to check, and <em>len</em> contains the
+number of characters in the string to use.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#heuristicContentMatch">heuristicContentMatch</a>().
+
+<p>Example: <a href="qwerty-example.html#x391">qwerty/qwerty.cpp</a>.
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="codecForIndex"></a>TQTextCodec::codecForIndex ( int&nbsp;i )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Returns the TQTextCodec <em>i</em> positions from the most recently
+inserted codec, or 0 if there is no such TQTextCodec. Thus,
+<a href="#codecForIndex">codecForIndex</a>(0) returns the most recently created TQTextCodec.
+
+<p>Example: <a href="qwerty-example.html#x392">qwerty/qwerty.cpp</a>.
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="codecForLocale"></a>TQTextCodec::codecForLocale ()<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3> Returns a pointer to the codec most suitable for this locale.
+<p>Example: <a href="qwerty-example.html#x393">qwerty/qwerty.cpp</a>.
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="codecForMib"></a>TQTextCodec::codecForMib ( int&nbsp;mib )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Returns the TQTextCodec which matches the <a href="#mibEnum">MIBenum</a> <em>mib</em>.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="codecForName"></a>TQTextCodec::codecForName ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;name, int&nbsp;accuracy = 0 )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Searches all installed TQTextCodec objects and returns the one
+which best matches <em>name</em>; the match is case-insensitive. Returns
+0 if no codec's <a href="#heuristicNameMatch">heuristicNameMatch</a>() reports a match better than
+<em>accuracy</em>, or if <em>name</em> is a null string.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#heuristicNameMatch">heuristicNameMatch</a>().
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="codecForTr"></a>TQTextCodec::codecForTr ()<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+
+<p> Returns the codec used by <a href="ntqobject.html#tr">TQObject::tr</a>() on its argument. If this
+function returns 0 (the default), tr() assumes Latin-1.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#setCodecForTr">setCodecForTr</a>().
+
+<h3 class=fn>void <a name="deleteAllCodecs"></a>TQTextCodec::deleteAllCodecs ()<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Deletes all the created codecs.
+<p> <b>Warning:</b> Do not call this function.
+<p> <a href="ntqapplication.html">TQApplication</a> calls this function just before exiting to delete
+any TQTextCodec objects that may be lying around. Since various
+other classes hold pointers to TQTextCodec objects, it is not safe
+to call this function earlier.
+<p> If you are using the utility classes (like <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a>) but not using
+TQApplication, calling this function at the very end of your
+application may be helpful for chasing down memory leaks by
+eliminating any TQTextCodec objects.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a> <a name="fromUnicode"></a>TQTextCodec::fromUnicode ( const&nbsp;<a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;uc, int&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;lenInOut ) const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+TQTextCodec subclasses must reimplement either this function or
+<a href="#makeEncoder">makeEncoder</a>(). It converts the first <em>lenInOut</em> characters of <em>uc</em> from Unicode to the encoding of the subclass. If <em>lenInOut</em> is
+negative or too large, the length of <em>uc</em> is used instead.
+<p> Converts <em>lenInOut</em> characters (not bytes) from <em>uc</em>, producing
+a <a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a>. <em>lenInOut</em> will be set to the <a href="ntqcstring.html#length">length</a> of the result (in bytes).
+<p> The default implementation makes an encoder with makeEncoder() and
+converts the input with that. Note that the default makeEncoder()
+implementation makes an encoder that simply calls this function,
+hence subclasses <em>must</em> reimplement one function or the other to
+avoid infinite recursion.
+
+<p>Reimplemented in <a href="qhebrewcodec.html#fromUnicode">TQHebrewCodec</a>.
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a> <a name="fromUnicode-2"></a>TQTextCodec::fromUnicode ( const&nbsp;<a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;uc ) const
+</h3>
+This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
+<p> <em>uc</em> is the unicode source string.
+
+<h3 class=fn>int <a name="heuristicContentMatch"></a>TQTextCodec::heuristicContentMatch ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars, int&nbsp;len ) const<tt> [pure virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+
+<p> TQTextCodec subclasses must reimplement this function. It examines
+the first <em>len</em> bytes of <em>chars</em> and returns a value indicating
+how likely it is that the string is a prefix of text encoded in
+the encoding of the subclass. A negative return value indicates
+that the text is detectably not in the encoding (e.g. it contains
+characters undefined in the encoding). A return value of 0
+indicates that the text should be decoded with this codec rather
+than as ASCII, but there is no particular evidence. The value
+should range up to <em>len</em>. Thus, most decoders will return -1, 0,
+or -<em>len</em>.
+<p> The characters are not null terminated.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#codecForContent">codecForContent</a>().
+
+<h3 class=fn>int <a name="heuristicNameMatch"></a>TQTextCodec::heuristicNameMatch ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;hint ) const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+Returns a value indicating how likely it is that this decoder is
+appropriate for decoding some format that has the given name. The
+name is compared with the <em>hint</em>.
+<p> A good match returns a positive number around the length of the
+string. A bad match is negative.
+<p> The default implementation calls <a href="#simpleHeuristicNameMatch">simpleHeuristicNameMatch</a>() with
+the name of the codec.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="loadCharmap"></a>TQTextCodec::loadCharmap ( <a href="ntqiodevice.html">TQIODevice</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;iod )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Reads a POSIX2 charmap definition from <em>iod</em>.
+The parser recognizes the following lines:
+<p> <font name="sans">
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;code_set_name&gt; <i>name</i></br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;escape_char&gt; <i>character</i></br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;% alias <i>alias</i></br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;CHARMAP</br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<i>token</i>&gt; /x<i>hexbyte</i> &lt;U<i>unicode</i>&gt; ...</br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<i>token</i>&gt; /d<i>decbyte</i> &lt;U<i>unicode</i>&gt; ...</br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<i>token</i>&gt; /<i>octbyte</i> &lt;U<i>unicode</i>&gt; ...</br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;&lt;<i>token</i>&gt; /<i>any</i>/<i>any</i>... &lt;U<i>unicode</i>&gt; ...</br>
+&nbsp;&nbsp;END CHARMAP</br>
+</font>
+<p> The resulting TQTextCodec is returned (and also added to the global
+list of codecs). The <a href="#name">name</a>() of the result is taken from the
+code_set_name.
+<p> Note that a codec constructed in this way uses much more memory
+and is slower than a hand-written TQTextCodec subclass, since
+tables in code are kept in memory shared by all TQt applications.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#loadCharmapFile">loadCharmapFile</a>().
+
+<p>Example: <a href="qwerty-example.html#x394">qwerty/qwerty.cpp</a>.
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;* <a name="loadCharmapFile"></a>TQTextCodec::loadCharmapFile ( <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a>&nbsp;filename )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+A convenience function for <a href="#loadCharmap">loadCharmap</a>() that loads the charmap
+definition from the file <em>filename</em>.
+
+<h3 class=fn>const char * <a name="locale"></a>TQTextCodec::locale ()<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Returns a string representing the current language and
+sublanguage, e.g. "pt" for Portuguese, or "pt_br" for Portuguese/Brazil.
+
+<p>Example: <a href="i18n-example.html#x1949">i18n/main.cpp</a>.
+<h3 class=fn><a href="qtextdecoder.html">TQTextDecoder</a>&nbsp;* <a name="makeDecoder"></a>TQTextCodec::makeDecoder () const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+Creates a <a href="qtextdecoder.html">TQTextDecoder</a> which stores enough state to decode chunks
+of char* data to create chunks of Unicode data. The default
+implementation creates a stateless decoder, which is only
+sufficient for the simplest encodings where each byte corresponds
+to exactly one Unicode character.
+<p> The caller is responsible for deleting the returned object.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="qtextencoder.html">TQTextEncoder</a>&nbsp;* <a name="makeEncoder"></a>TQTextCodec::makeEncoder () const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+Creates a <a href="qtextencoder.html">TQTextEncoder</a> which stores enough state to encode chunks
+of Unicode data as char* data. The default implementation creates
+a stateless encoder, which is only sufficient for the simplest
+encodings where each Unicode character corresponds to exactly one
+character.
+<p> The caller is responsible for deleting the returned object.
+
+<h3 class=fn>int <a name="mibEnum"></a>TQTextCodec::mibEnum () const<tt> [pure virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+
+<p> Subclasses of TQTextCodec must reimplement this function. It
+returns the MIBenum (see <a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets">the
+ IANA character-sets encoding file</a> for more information).
+It is important that each TQTextCodec subclass returns the correct
+unique value for this function.
+
+<p>Reimplemented in <a href="ntqeucjpcodec.html#mibEnum">TQEucJpCodec</a>.
+<h3 class=fn>const char * <a name="mimeName"></a>TQTextCodec::mimeName () const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+Returns the preferred mime name of the encoding as defined in the
+<a href="http://www.iana.org/assignments/character-sets">IANA character-sets encoding file</a>.
+
+<p>Reimplemented in <a href="ntqeucjpcodec.html#mimeName">TQEucJpCodec</a>, <a href="ntqeuckrcodec.html#mimeName">TQEucKrCodec</a>, <a href="ntqjiscodec.html#mimeName">TQJisCodec</a>, <a href="qhebrewcodec.html#mimeName">TQHebrewCodec</a>, and <a href="ntqsjiscodec.html#mimeName">TQSjisCodec</a>.
+<h3 class=fn>const char * <a name="name"></a>TQTextCodec::name () const<tt> [pure virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+
+<p> TQTextCodec subclasses must reimplement this function. It returns
+the name of the encoding supported by the subclass. When choosing
+a name for an encoding, consider these points:
+<ul>
+<li> On X11, <a href="#heuristicNameMatch">heuristicNameMatch</a>( const char * hint )
+is used to test if a the TQTextCodec
+can convert between Unicode and the encoding of a font
+with encoding <em>hint</em>, such as "iso8859-1" for Latin-1 fonts,
+"koi8-r" for Russian KOI8 fonts.
+The default algorithm of heuristicNameMatch() uses <a href="#name">name</a>().
+<li> Some applications may use this function to present
+encodings to the end user.
+</ul>
+
+<p>Example: <a href="qwerty-example.html#x395">qwerty/qwerty.cpp</a>.
+<h3 class=fn>void <a name="setCodecForCStrings"></a>TQTextCodec::setCodecForCStrings ( <a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;c )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3><p><b>Warning:</b> This function is <i>not</i> <a href="threads.html#reentrant">reentrant</a>.</p>
+
+
+
+<p> Sets the codec used by <a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> to convert to and from const char*
+and TQCStrings. If <em>c</em> is 0 (the default), TQString assumes Latin-1.
+<p> <b>Warning:</b> Some codecs do not preserve the characters in the ascii
+range (0x00 to 0x7f). For example, the Japanese Shift-JIS
+encoding maps the backslash character (0x5a) to the Yen character.
+This leads to unexpected results when using the backslash
+character to escape characters in strings used in e.g. regular
+expressions. Use <a href="ntqstring.html#fromLatin1">TQString::fromLatin1</a>() to preserve characters in
+the ascii range when needed.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#codecForCStrings">codecForCStrings</a>() and <a href="#setCodecForTr">setCodecForTr</a>().
+
+<h3 class=fn>void <a name="setCodecForLocale"></a>TQTextCodec::setCodecForLocale ( <a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;c )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3>
+Set the codec to <em>c</em>; this will be returned by <a href="#codecForLocale">codecForLocale</a>().
+This might be needed for some applications that want to use their
+own mechanism for setting the locale.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#codecForLocale">codecForLocale</a>().
+
+<h3 class=fn>void <a name="setCodecForTr"></a>TQTextCodec::setCodecForTr ( <a href="ntqtextcodec.html">TQTextCodec</a>&nbsp;*&nbsp;c )<tt> [static]</tt>
+</h3><p><b>Warning:</b> This function is <i>not</i> <a href="threads.html#reentrant">reentrant</a>.</p>
+
+
+
+<p> Sets the codec used by <a href="ntqobject.html#tr">TQObject::tr</a>() on its argument to <em>c</em>. If
+<em>c</em> is 0 (the default), tr() assumes Latin-1.
+<p> If the literal quoted text in the program is not in the Latin-1
+encoding, this function can be used to set the appropriate
+encoding. For example, software developed by Korean programmers
+might use eucKR for all the text in the program, in which case the
+main() function might look like this:
+<p> <pre>
+ int main(int argc, char** argv)
+ {
+ <a href="ntqapplication.html">TQApplication</a> app(argc, argv);
+ ... install any additional codecs ...
+ TQTextCodec::<a href="#setCodecForTr">setCodecForTr</a>( TQTextCodec::<a href="#codecForName">codecForName</a>("eucKR") );
+ ...
+ }
+ </pre>
+
+<p> Note that this is not the way to select the encoding that the <em>user</em> has chosen. For example, to convert an application containing
+literal English strings to Korean, all that is needed is for the
+English strings to be passed through tr() and for translation
+files to be loaded. For details of <a href="i18n.html#internationalization">internationalization</a>, see the
+<a href="i18n.html">TQt internationalization documentation</a>.
+<p> <p>See also <a href="#codecForTr">codecForTr</a>() and <a href="#setCodecForCStrings">setCodecForCStrings</a>().
+
+<h3 class=fn>int <a name="simpleHeuristicNameMatch"></a>TQTextCodec::simpleHeuristicNameMatch ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;name, const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;hint )<tt> [static protected]</tt>
+</h3>
+A simple utility function for <a href="#heuristicNameMatch">heuristicNameMatch</a>(): it does some
+very minor character-skipping so that almost-exact matches score
+high. <em>name</em> is the text we're matching and <em>hint</em> is used for
+the comparison.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> <a name="toUnicode"></a>TQTextCodec::toUnicode ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars, int&nbsp;len ) const<tt> [virtual]</tt>
+</h3>
+TQTextCodec subclasses must reimplement this function or
+<a href="#makeDecoder">makeDecoder</a>(). It converts the first <em>len</em> characters of <em>chars</em>
+to Unicode.
+<p> The default implementation makes a decoder with makeDecoder() and
+converts the input with that. Note that the default makeDecoder()
+implementation makes a decoder that simply calls
+this function, hence subclasses <em>must</em> reimplement one function or
+the other to avoid infinite recursion.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> <a name="toUnicode-2"></a>TQTextCodec::toUnicode ( const&nbsp;<a href="qbytearray.html">TQByteArray</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a, int&nbsp;len ) const
+</h3>
+This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
+<p> <em>a</em> contains the source characters; <em>len</em> contains the number of
+characters in <em>a</em> to use.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> <a name="toUnicode-3"></a>TQTextCodec::toUnicode ( const&nbsp;<a href="qbytearray.html">TQByteArray</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a ) const
+</h3>
+This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
+<p> <em>a</em> contains the source characters.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> <a name="toUnicode-4"></a>TQTextCodec::toUnicode ( const&nbsp;<a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a, int&nbsp;len ) const
+</h3>
+This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
+<p> <em>a</em> contains the source characters; <em>len</em> contains the number of
+characters in <em>a</em> to use.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> <a name="toUnicode-5"></a>TQTextCodec::toUnicode ( const&nbsp;<a href="ntqcstring.html">TQCString</a>&nbsp;&amp;&nbsp;a ) const
+</h3>
+This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
+<p> <em>a</em> contains the source characters.
+
+<h3 class=fn><a href="ntqstring.html">TQString</a> <a name="toUnicode-6"></a>TQTextCodec::toUnicode ( const&nbsp;char&nbsp;*&nbsp;chars ) const
+</h3>
+This is an overloaded member function, provided for convenience. It behaves essentially like the above function.
+<p> <em>chars</em> contains the source characters.
+
+<!-- eof -->
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