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+/* -*- Mode: C++; tab-width: 8; indent-tabs-mode: nil; c-basic-offset: 2 -*- */
+/* vim: set ts=8 sts=2 et sw=2 tw=80: */
+/* 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 nsNativeCharsetUtils_h__
+#define nsNativeCharsetUtils_h__
+
+
+/*****************************************************************************\
+ *                                                                           *
+ *                             **** NOTICE ****                              *
+ *                                                                           *
+ *             *** THESE ARE NOT GENERAL PURPOSE CONVERTERS ***              *
+ *                                                                           *
+ *    NS_CopyNativeToUnicode / NS_CopyUnicodeToNative should only be used    *
+ *    for converting *FILENAMES* between native and unicode. They are not    *
+ *    designed or tested for general encoding converter use.                 *
+ *                                                                           *
+\*****************************************************************************/
+
+/**
+ * thread-safe conversion routines that do not depend on uconv libraries.
+ */
+nsresult NS_CopyNativeToUnicode(const nsACString& aInput, nsAString& aOutput);
+nsresult NS_CopyUnicodeToNative(const nsAString& aInput, nsACString& aOutput);
+
+/*
+ * This function indicates whether the character encoding used in the file
+ * system (more exactly what's used for |GetNativeFoo| and |SetNativeFoo|
+ * of |nsIFile|) is UTF-8 or not. Knowing that helps us avoid an
+ * unncessary encoding conversion in some cases. For instance, to get the leaf
+ * name in UTF-8 out of nsIFile, we can just use |GetNativeLeafName| rather
+ * than using |GetLeafName| and converting the result to UTF-8 if the file
+ * system  encoding is UTF-8.
+ * On Unix (but not on Mac OS X), it depends on the locale and is not known
+ * in advance (at the compilation time) so that this function needs to be
+ * a real function. On Mac OS X it's always UTF-8 while on Windows
+ * and other platforms (e.g. OS2), it's never UTF-8.
+ */
+#if defined(XP_UNIX) && !defined(XP_MACOSX) && !defined(ANDROID)
+bool NS_IsNativeUTF8();
+#else
+inline bool
+NS_IsNativeUTF8()
+{
+#if defined(XP_MACOSX) || defined(ANDROID)
+  return true;
+#else
+  return false;
+#endif
+}
+#endif
+
+
+/**
+ * internal
+ */
+void NS_StartupNativeCharsetUtils();
+void NS_ShutdownNativeCharsetUtils();
+
+#endif // nsNativeCharsetUtils_h__