Re: Conversion from UTF32 to UTF8 for review
Peter Olcott <NoSpam@OCR4Screen.com> wrote:
I used the two tables from this link as the basis for my design:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-8
I suggest you use http://unicode.org/ for your source. Why use a
secondary source when the primary source is easily available?
I would like this reviewed for algorithm correctness:
Surely your tests have already shown whether the algorithm is correct.
void UnicodeEncodingConversion::
toUTF8(std::vector<uint32_t>& UTF32, std::vector<uint8_t>& UTF8) {
uint8_t Byte;
uint32_t CodePoint;
UTF8.reserve(UTF32.size() * 4); // worst case
for (uint32_t N = 0; N < UTF32.size(); N++) {
CodePoint = UTF32[N];
I suggest you use an iterator instead of an integer for the loop. That
way you wont need the extraneous variable.
if (CodePoint <= 0x7F) {
Byte = CodePoint;
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
}
else if (CodePoint <= 0x7FF) {
Byte = 0xC0 | (CodePoint >> 6);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
Byte = 0x80 | (CodePoint & 0x3F);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
}
else if (CodePoint <= 0xFFFF) {
Byte = 0xE0 | (CodePoint >> 12);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
Byte = 0x80 | ((CodePoint >> 6) & 0x3F);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
Byte = 0x80 | (CodePoint & 0x3F);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
}
else if (CodePoint <= 0x10FFFF) {
The codes 10FFFE and 10FFFF are guaranteed not to be unicode
characters...
Byte = 0xF0 | (CodePoint >> 18);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
Byte = 0x80 | ((CodePoint >> 12) & 0x3F);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
Byte = 0x80 | ((CodePoint >> 6) & 0x3F);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
Byte = 0x80 | (CodePoint & 0x3F);
UTF8.push_back(Byte);
}
else
printf("%d is outside of the Unicode range!\n", CodePoint);
Throw is more appropriate here.
}
}
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