)Re: assigning a to a temporary 64-bit variable: I suppose so. where. The class type_info holds implementation-specific information about a type, including the name of the type and means to compare two types for equality or collating order. The legacy concept of code page was then extended to include the UTF-8 encoding. So, instead of just invoking utf8.length to get the size of the source UTF-8 input string, and passing that to the MultiByteToWideChar API, its better to check the actual size_t-value of the length, making sure it can be safely and meaningfully converted to an int, and only then pass it to the MultiByteToWideChar API. In contrast, the Japanese ideograph (code point U+5B66) is encoded in UTF-8 as the three-byte sequence 0xE5 0xAD 0xA6. Marc can be contacted at marc.gregoire@nuonsoft.com. The use of the MB_ERR_INVALID_CHARS flag is also encouraged in Michael Howard and David LeBlancs book, Writing Secure Code, Second Edition (Microsoft Press, 2003). In other words, wstring can be used to store Unicode text encoded in UTF-16 on Windows with the Visual C++ compiler (where the size of wchar_t is 16 bits), but not on Linux with the GCC C++ compiler, which defines a different-sized 32-bit wchar_t type. Demonstrates the use of machine epsilon to compare floating-point values for equality The macro NAN expands to constant expression of type float which evaluates to a quiet not-a-number (QNaN) value. Standard modules. There are two key Win32 APIs that can be used for this purpose: MultiByteToWideChar and its symmetric WideCharToMultiByte. Finally, the MultiByteToWideChar function is invoked a second time to do the actual encoding conversion, using the destination string buffer previously allocated. Previously, sorting was only required to take O(n log n) on average, allowing the use of quicksort, which is fast in practice but has poor worst-case performance, but introsort was introduced to allow both fast average performance and optimal worst-case complexity, and as of C++11, sorting is guaranteed to be at worst linearithmic. Each specialization of this template is either enabled ("untainted") or disabled ("poisoned").. Read more about this function here. Atomically replaces the current value with the result of arithmetic addition of the value and arg. Unicode is the de facto standard for representing international text in modern software. This will prevent the definition of the min and max Windows-specific preprocessor macros. In particular, they define an operator() const that: All explicit and partial specializations of hash provided by the standard library are DefaultConstructible, CopyAssignable, Swappable and Destructible. The enabled specializations of the hash template defines a function object that implements a hash function. QRandomGenerator is also compatible with the uniform distribution classes std::uniform_int_distribution and std:uniform_real_distribution, as well as the free function std::generate_canonical. A possible solution is to #define NOMINMAX before including . Hows that? In other words, these hash functions are designed to work with unordered associative containers, but not as cryptographic hashes, for example. template<> struct hash; // C++20 The Apache C++ Standard Library is another open-source implementation. To find the value that has no values less than it, use numeric_limits::lowest. Note also that the size of the destination string is expressed in wchar_ts (not in 8-bit chars), which makes sense, because the destination string is a UTF-16-encoded Unicode string, made by sequences of 16-bit wchar_ts. Note: this is an early draft. Which encoding should you use? There are some ways to prevent that. Unicode is the de facto standard for representing international text in modern software. As I noted earlier, Unicode conversions between UTF-8 and UTF-16 are losslessno characters will be lost during the conversion process. Generally, a download manager enables downloading of large files or multiples files in one session. [2] No other headers in the C++ Standard Library end in ".h". template<> struct hash; It is a distinct type that is not itself a pointer type or a pointer to member type. This can be an instance of the previously custom-designed Utf8ConversionException class: Allocating Memory for the Destination String If the Win32 function call succeeds, the required destination string length is stored in the utf16Length local variable, so the destination memory for the output UTF-16 string can be allocated. Next, a constructor can be defined, to initialize instances of this custom exception class with an error message and error code: Finally, a public getter can be defined to provide read-only access to the error code: Because this class is derived from std::runtime_error, its possible to call the what method to get the error message passed in the constructor. And, in fact, the size of wchar_t defined by the GNU GCC C++ compiler on Linux is 32 bits. In the C++ programming language, the C++ Standard Library is a collection of classes and functions, which are written in the core language and part of the C++ ISO Standard itself.[1]. In most cases this requires linear time O(n) or linearithmic time O(n log n), but in some cases higher bounds are allowed, such as quasilinear time O(n log2 n) for stable sort (to allow in-place merge sort). int n; std:: cin >> n;) any whitespace that follows, including a newline character, will be left on the input stream.Then when switching to line-oriented input, the first line retrieved with getline will be just that whitespace. If the first call to MultiByteToWideChar succeeds, its unlikely this second call will fail. Defining an Exception Class for Conversion Errors What kind of C++ class can be used to throw an exception in case a Unicode encoding conversion fails? The problem is in the definition of the min and max macros in the Windows Platform SDK headers. Components that C++ programs may use to perform seminumerical operations. The reverse conversion follows a very similar pattern, and reusable C++ code implementing it is available in this articles download. A typical error code returned in case of invalid UTF-8 characters is ERROR_NO_UNICODE_TRANSLATION. std::nullptr_t is the type of the null pointer literal, nullptr.It is a distinct type that is not itself a pointer type or a pointer to member type. Upgrade to Microsoft Edge to take advantage of the latest features, security updates, and technical support. There are many different NaN values, differentiated by their payloads and their sign bits. template<> struct hash; In addition to the above, the standard library provides specializations for all (scoped and unscoped) enumeration types. The former contains the definition of a C++ exception class used to signal error conditions during the Unicode encoding conversions. Marc Gregoire is a senior software engineer from Belgium, the founder of the Belgian C++ Users Group, author of Professional C++ (Wiley), co-author of C++ Standard Library Quick Reference (Apress), technical editor on numerous books, and since 2007, has received the yearly MVP award for his VC++ expertise. The relationship with type_info object is maintained through a pointer, therefore type_index is CopyConstructible and CopyAssignable. UTF-8, as its name suggests, uses 8-bit code units. the largest possible value for type int is std:: numeric_limits < int >:: max ()).. sizeof cannot be used with function types, incomplete types, or bit-field lvalues (until C++11) glvalues (since C++11).. Therefore, conversions between these two encodings are lossless: No Unicode character will be lost during the process. On the other hand, std::string, which is char-based, is portable. Very similar code can be written for the reverse conversion from UTF-16 to UTF-8, this time calling the WideCharToMultiByte API. Because these Win32 functions have similar interfaces and usage patterns, Ill focus only on MultiByteToWideChar in this article, but I have included C++-compilable code that uses the other API as part of this articles download. Working Draft, Standard for Programming Language C++. Each standard library header that declares the template std::hash provides all enabled specializations described above. template<> struct hash; The type_info class is neither CopyConstructible nor CopyAssignable. There isnt a single answer to this question. Finally, its important to note that, because both UTF-8 and UTF-16 are variable-length encodings, the return values of the string::length and wstring::length methods in general dont correspond to the number of Unicode characters (or code points) stored in the strings. For many Unicode characters theres an immediate, direct correspondence between their code point abstract representation (such as U+5B66) and their associated UTF-16 encoding in hex (for example, the 0x5B66 16-bit word). Ever since the modules were introduced in C++20, there has been no support for standard library modules until C++23.These named modules were added to include all items declared in both global and std namespaces provided by the importable standard headers. Only meaningful for bounded types. The void type is a special type; you can't declare a variable of type void, but you can declare a variable of type void * (pointer to void), which is sometimes necessary when Note that Unicode is an industry standard that covers most of the worlds writing systems, including ideographs. If the result is not a representable value for its type, the result is unspecified but the operation otherwise has no undefined behavior. Lets implement this pattern in C++ code, inside the body of the custom Utf8ToUtf16 conversion function. When applied to a class type, the result is the number of bytes occupied by a complete object of that class, including any additional padding required to place such object in The conversion function can handle cases of invalid UTF-8 input sequences by throwing a C++ exception. Returns the special value "positive infinity", as represented by the floating-point type T.Only meaningful if std:: numeric_limits < T >:: has_infinity == true.In IEEE 754, the most common binary representation of floating-point numbers, the positive infinity is the value with all bits of the exponent set and all bits of the fraction cleared. If UTF-8 encoding is used, because its based on 8-bit code units, a simple char can be used to represent each of these code units in C++. This isnt a problem for strings of reasonable length, but for gigantic strings of length greater than (231-1)that is, more than 2 billion bytes in sizethe conversion from an unsigned integer (size_t) to a signed integer (int) can generate a negative number, and negative lengths dont make sense. The former can be invoked to convert from UTF-8 (multi-byte string in the specific API terminology) to UTF-16 (wide char string); the latter can be used for the opposite. Second API Call: Doing the Actual Conversion Now that the UTF-16 wstring instance has enough space to host the resulting UTF-16 encoded text, its finally time to call MultiByteToWideChar for the second time, to get the actual converted bits in the destination string: Note the use of the &utf16[0] syntax to gain write access to the std::wstrings internal memory buffer (this, too, was already discussed in my July 2015 article). The same applies to local_ and non-local_ Because this API will be called twice in the Utf8ToUtf16 conversion functions body, its good practice for code readability and maintainability to define a named constant that can be used in both calls: Its also good practice from a security perspective to make the conversion process fail if an invalid UTF-8 sequence is found in the input string. He also writes a blog at blogs.msmvps.com/gdicanio. There is no specialization for C strings. Given an object o of type type and static storage duration, o. member shall be an lvalue constant expression that refers to a subobject of o. T Type of the mapped value. I showed a detailed description of the usage pattern of the MultiByteToWideChar API, wrapping it in a reusable modern C++ helper function to perform conversions from UTF-8 to UTF-16. Headers. Macros are not allowed to be exportable, so users have to manually include or import headers that emit Language. So a GCC/Linux 32-bit wchar_t is a good candidate for the UTF-32 encoding on the Linux platform. This information is provided via specializations of the numeric_limits template. The first, and simplest, is to use std::getline() for example: std::getline(std::cin, yourString); that will discard the input stream when it gets to a new-line. Disabled specializations do not satisfy Hash, do not satisfy FunctionObject, and following values are all false: In other words, they exist, but cannot be used. The Unicode character beer mug (, U+1F37A), which is located outside the BMP, is encoded in UTF-8 by the four-byte sequence 0xF0 0x9F 0x8D 0xBA. [5] These performance requirements often correspond to a well-known algorithm, which is expected but not required to be used. Instances of this function object satisfy Hash. Note: additional specializations for std::pair and the standard container types, as well as utility functions to compose hashes are available in boost::hash. This page has been accessed 345,279 times. Unicode text can be encoded in various formats: The two most important ones are UTF-8 and UTF-16. Features of the C++ Standard Library are declared within the std namespace. Merge with extra: opencv/opencv_extra#346 Merge with 3rdparty: opencv/opencv_3rdparty#24 GSoC2017: Face alignment Overview Proposal: Face alignment using OpenCV. Returns the lowest finite value representable by the numeric type T, that is, a finite value x such that there is no other finite value y where y < x.This is different from std:: numeric_limits < T >:: min for floating-point types. __null is equivalent to a zero-valued integer literal (and thus compatible with the C++ standard) and has the same size as void *, e.g. Each element in an unordered_map is used to store some data as its mapped value. Return value. The operation need not conform to the corresponding std::numeric_limits traits but is encouraged to do so. On systems that do not support time zones this function will behave as if local time were Qt::UTC. Because this code is talking to Win32 APIs, its already non-portable, so std::wstring is well-suited to store UTF-16 text here. The only difference between these headers and the traditional C Standard Library headers is that where possible the functions should be placed into the std:: namespace. This is reusable code, compiling cleanly at the Visual C++ warning level 4 (/W4) in both 32-bit and 64-bit builds. numeric_limitmacwindow std::numeric_limits short: 32767 or 0x7fff int: 2147483647 or 0x7fffffff streamsize: 9223372036854775807 or 0x7fffffffffffffff size_t: 18446744073709551615 or 0xffffffffffffffff float: 3.40282e+38 or 0x1.fffffep+127 double: 1.79769e+308 or 0x1.fffffffffffffp+1023 To have a little fun, lets take a look at some pictographic symbols. This page was last modified on 6 July 2022, at 14:25. Its worth noting that the C++ standard doesnt specify the size of the wchar_t type, so while it amounts to 16 bits with the Visual C++ compiler, other C++ compilers are free to use different sizes. For every type Key for which neither the library nor the user provides an enabled specialization std::hash, that specialization exists and is disabled. To reuse this code in your projects, just #include the aforementioned header files. Note that in the definition of this class, only portable standard elements have been used, so this class is perfectly consumable in cross-platform portions of C++ code, even those located far away from the Windows-specific throwing point. This page was last modified on 31 March 2022, at 13:52. However, during Unicode encoding conversions, things can go wrong. Just like UTF-8, UTF-16 can encode all possible Unicode code points. This Win32 function has a relatively complex interface, and its behavior is defined according to some flags. This page was last modified on 30 December 2021, at 21:55. An option might be using a class already defined in the standard library, for example: std::runtime_error. The following code can be used to make sure that size_t-length doesnt exceed the maximum value for a variable of type int, throwing an exception if it does: Note the use of the std::numeric_limits class template (from the C++ standard header) to query the largest possible value for the type int. To contain datetime data, toml11 defines its own datetime types. nullptr_t is available in the global namespace when is included, even if it is not a part of C99~C17 (referenced by C++11~C++20). There is actually another Unicode encoding, which is less well-known and less used in practice than its siblings: UTF-32. So, it does make sense to use portable typedefs instead of Win32-specific ones; uint32_t is an example of such types. A noteworthy feature of the C++ Standard Library is that it not only specifies the syntax and semantics of generic algorithms, but also places requirements on their performance. Because this is an input parameter, its passed by const reference (const &) to the function. template<> struct hash; template<> struct hash; UTF-16 is the native Unicode encoding in many other software systems, as well. The actual hash functions are implementation-dependent and are not required to fulfill any other quality criteria except those specified above. [8] However, after more than five years without a release, the board of the Apache Software Foundation decided to end this project and move it to Apache Attic.[9]. For example, the code point associated to the character C is U+0043. In any case, conversions between UTF-8 and UTF-16 are required at least at the Win32 API boundary, because Windows Unicode-enabled APIs use UTF-16 as their native encoding. The fact that UTF-8 is an endian-neutral format plays an important role in this. Note also the use of the CP_UTF8 constant to specify that the input string is encoded in UTF-8. More IndicesPtr getIndices Get a pointer to the vector of indices used. However, DWORD is a Win32-specific non-portable typedef. For example, Qt, Java and the International Components for Unicode (ICU) library, just to name a few, use UTF-16 encoding to store Unicode strings. This page was last modified on 18 August 2022, at 01:00. So, another option is to use an extra pair of parentheses around the std::numeric_limits::max member function call, to prevent against the aforementioned macro expansion: Moreover, as an alternative, the INT_MAX constant could be used instead of the C++ std::numeric_limits class template. A possible solution is to #define NOMINMAX before including . As its name clearly suggests, its based on 32-bit code units. In the likely case that this is unwanted behaviour, possible solutions include: template<> struct hash; In this case, the GetLastError Win32 function can be invoked to get further details about the cause of the failure. (Generated on 2022-09-28 from the LaTeX sources by cxxdraft-htmlgen.This is not an ISO publication.) Unicode defines a concept of plane as a continuous group of 65,536 (216) code points. In other words, valid ASCII text is automatically valid UTF-8-encoded text. sizeof(std::nullptr_t) is equal to sizeof(void *). Handling the Error Case If the preceding function call fails, for example, in presence of invalid UTF-8 sequences in the input string, the MultiByteToWideChar API returns zero. Whether the const_ member type is the same type as its non-const_ counterpart depends on the particular library implementation, but programs should not rely on them being different to overload functions: const_iterator is more generic, since iterator is always convertible to it. This page has been accessed 92,819 times. The UTF-8 encoding (unlike UTF-16) is endian-neutral by design. In particular, the Windows-specific definition of the max preprocessor macro conflicts with the std::numeric_limits::max member function call. Start handling the special case of an empty input string, where just an empty output wstring is returned: Conversion Flags MultiByteToWideChar can be called for the first time to get the size of the destination UTF-16 string. The latter implements the actual Unicode encoding conversion functions. In particular, the Windows-specific definition of the max preprocessor macro conflicts with the std::numeric_limits::max member function call. This is typically done using the std::wstring::resize method in case the destination is a UTF-16 string. A possible function prototype is: This conversion function takes as input a Unicode UTF-8-encoded string, which is stored in the standard STL std::string class. [3][4] Although the C++ Standard Library and the STL share many features, neither is a strict superset of the other. External Links Non-ANSI/ISO Libraries Index std Symbol Index: C reference C89, C95, C99, C11, C17, C23. Tutorial blog: A tutorial to use the described functionality Mentor : Steven Puttemans @StevenPuttemans Student: Sukhad Anand @sukhad template<> struct hash; Second, because Unicode text encoded in UTF-8 is just a sequence of 8-bit byte units, theres no endianness complication. Given an object o of type type and static storage duration, o. member shall be an lvalue constant expression that refers to a subobject of o. The contents of the payload and the sign bit of the NaN generated by the macro NAN are implementation-defined. The unordered associative containers std::unordered_set, std::unordered_multiset, std::unordered_map, std::unordered_multimap use specializations of the template std::hash as the default hash function. So, the question now becomes: What kind of C++ string classes can be used to store Unicode text? it is equivalent to 0 / 0L on ILP32/LP64 platforms respectively; If your project uses an older Visual C++ compiler version that doesnt support the constexpr keyword, you can substitute static const in that context. Text or binary mode should be specified by the caller. https://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=cpp/types/numeric_limits/infinity&oldid=136815, identifies floating-point types that can represent the special value "positive infinity". UTF-16 is basically the de facto standard encoding used by Windows Unicode-enabled APIs. The program is ill-formed if T is not an object type. By taking a closer look at numeric_limits we uncover the first advantage of traits, a consistent interface. Considering the two Unicode characters I mentioned before, the capital letter C (code point U+0043) is encoded in UTF-8 using the single byte 0x43 (43 hexadecimal), which is exactly the ASCII code associated with the character C (as per the UTF-8 backward compatibility with ASCII). Even if this C++ exception class is thrown from Win32-specific portions of C++ code, it can be caught by cross-platform C++ code! These named modules were added to include all items declared in both global and std namespaces provided by the importable standard headers. There are some ways to prevent that. All member functions of all standard library specializations of this template are noexcept except for the member functions of std::hash, std::hash, and std::hash. Hash functions are only required to produce the same result for the same input within a single execution of a program; this allows salted hashes that prevent collision denial-of-service attacks. This page has been accessed 1,436,494 times. *Note: All iterators in an unordered_set point to const elements. Note that the same usage pattern applies to the symmetric WideCharToMultiByte API. setIndices (std::size_t row_start, std::size_t col_start, std::size_t nb_rows, std::size_t nb_cols) Set the indices for the points laying within an interest region of the point cloud. The C++ Standard Library provides several generic containers, functions to use and manipulate these containers, function objects, generic strings and streams (including interactive and file I/O), support for some language features, and functions for common tasks such as finding the square root of a number. This ambiguity on the size of wchar_t determines a consequent lack of portability of C++ code based on it (including the std::wstring class itself). Sample compilable C++ code is included in the downloadable archive associated with this article. User-provided specializations of hash also must meet those requirements. As the result of the conversion, a string encoded in UTF-16 is returned, stored in a std::wstring instance. true for all arithmetic types (i.e., those for which numeric_limits is specialized). Discuss this article in the MSDN Magazine forum, More info about Internet Explorer and Microsoft Edge. How do I read a file into a std::string, i.e., read the whole file at once?. The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards. According to recent W3Techs statistics available at bit.ly/1UT5EBC, UTF-8 is used by 87 percent of all the Web sites it analyzed. template<> struct hash; The answer is based on the particular encoding used for the Unicode text. However, while UTF-8 encodes each valid Unicode code point using one to four 8-bit byte units, UTF-16 is, in a way, simpler. The Unicode standard defines several encodings, but the most important ones are UTF-8 and UTF-16, both of which are variable-length encodings capable of encoding all possible Unicode characters or, better, code points. Standard specializations for library types. =default=delete C++11=default=deletebig five&&&&big threedefaultdelete The operation need not conform to the corresponding std::numeric_limits traits but is encouraged to do so. It will not be evaluated at compile time (because it can't). std::hash produces a hash of the value of the pointer (the memory address), it does not examine the contents of any character array. In this case the STL std::string class, which is char-based, is a good option to store UTF-8-encoded Unicode text. This page has been accessed 261,555 times. This is the class returned by the typeid operator.. Some implementations define NULL as the compiler extension __null with following properties: . Because the wchar_t type has different sizes on different compilers and platforms, the std::wstring class, which is based on that type, is non-portable. Because the UTF-8 strings length is explicitly passed as an input parameter, this code will work also for instances of std::string having embedded NULs inside. UTF-16 uses 16-bit code units. If two or more overloads accept different pointer types, an overload for std::nullptr_t is necessary to accept a null pointer argument. Returns true if the value is not infinite and not NaN. For more detail, you can see the definitions in toml/datetime.hpp. 2.0 and 3.0 return true, 2.2 and 3.1 return false: IsNaN However, from a practical perspective, its worth noting that the use of wstring to store UTF-16 encoded text is just fine in Windows-specific C++ code. https://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=cpp/numeric/math/NAN&oldid=139144, Nearest integer floating point operations, identifies floating-point types that can represent the special value "quiet not-a-number" (NaN), identifies floating-point types that can represent the special value "signaling not-a-number" (NaN), returns a quiet NaN value of the given floating-point type, returns a signaling NaN value of the given floating-point type. template<> struct hash; Returns the special value "quiet not-a-number", as represented by the floating-point type T.Only meaningful if std:: numeric_limits < T >:: has_quiet_NaN == true.In IEEE 754, the most common binary representation of floating-point numbers, any value with all bits of the exponent set and at least one bit of the fraction set represents a NaN. Recently, conventional wisdom seems to suggest that a good approach consists of storing Unicode text encoded in UTF-8 in instances of the std::string class in cross-platform C++ code. std::nullptr_t is the type of the null pointer literal, nullptr. Performance shouldn't really be a concern when using it - there are times when something is optional, in which case this is often the correct tool for the job If the implementation does not support QNaNs, this macro constant is not defined. [] Member function [since 5.2] void QDateTime:: setOffsetFromUtc (int offsetSeconds) Returns the minimum finite value representable by the numeric type T.. For floating-point types with denormalization, min returns the minimum positive normalized value.Note that this behavior may be unexpected, especially when compared to the behavior of min for integral types. ; Returns a value of type std:: As already anticipated, the conversion work from UTF-8 to UTF-16 can be done using the MultiByteToWideChar Win32 API. In contrast, a multi-byte string is a sequence of bytes expressed in a code page. In Visual C++, the wchar_t type is exactly 16 bits in size; consequently, the STL std::wstring class, which is wchar_t-based, works fine to store UTF-16 Unicode text. (And if b == 0, then 1 is a perfectly valid return value even if a == 0. template<> struct hash; The standard library makes available specializations for all arithmetic types: Basically, this Unicode encoding conversion module consists of two header files: utf8except.h and utf8conv.h. template<> struct hash; =default=delete C++11=default=deletebig five&&&&big threedefaultdelete Basic concepts Keywords Preprocessor Expressions Declaration Initialization Functions Statements. Now that the prototype of the conversion function has been defined and a custom C++ exception class implemented to properly represent UTF-8 conversion failures, its time to develop the body of the conversion function. In other cases requirements remain laxer, such as selection, which is only required to be linear on average (as in quickselect),[6] not requiring worst-case linear as in introselect. The enabled specializations of the hash template defines a function object that implements a hash function.Instances of this function object satisfy Hash.In particular, they define an operator const that: . Notes. @ChristianAmmer: Re: if a == 0.Actually no, because as long as b > 0, res will be multiplied by a or a * a at least once. The member function implementations are extremely simple. The numeric_limits class template provides a standardized way to query various properties of arithmetic types (e.g. UTF-8 text can be conveniently stored in instances of the STL std::string class, while std::wstring is well-suited to store UTF-16-encoded text in Windows C++ code targeting the Visual C++ compiler. My main point there is that if you call a constexpr function on a non-constant expression, e.g. In fact, Unicode code points are encoded in UTF-16 using just one or two 16-bit code units. Accepts a single parameter of type Key. Aliased as member type unordered_map::key_type. Its values are null pointer constants (see NULL), and may be implicitly converted to any pointer and pointer to member type. 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But even in 32-bit builds, where both size_t and int are defined as 32-bit integers by the Visual C++ compiler, theres an unsigned/signed mismatch: size_t is unsigned, while int is signed. In C++ Windows code theres often a need to convert between UTF-8 and UTF-16, because Unicode-enabled Win32 APIs use UTF-16 as their native Unicode encoding. Giovanni Dicaniois a computer programmer specializing in C++ and Windows, a Pluralsight author and a Visual C++ MVP. template<> struct hash; That is, it performs atomic post-increment. The ideograph (U+5B66) is encoded in UTF-16 as the single 16-bit code unit 0x5B66. For signed Integral types, arithmetic is defined to use twos complement representation. In fact, these portions of code already interact with Win32 APIs, which are, of course, platform-specific by definition. To get read-only access to the input UTF-8 std::strings content, the std::string::data method is called. The first plane is identified as plane 0 or Basic Multilingual Plane (BMP). In contrast, utf8conv.h contains C++ code thats Windows-specific, because it directly interacts with the Win32 API boundary. These headers include , , , , , , , , , (since C++17), (since C++20), (since C++23). This is an important feature when exchanging text across different computing systems that can have different hardware architectures with different endianness. For floating types with denormalization (variable number of exponent bits): minimum positive normalized value. So adding wstring to the mix doesnt change the situation. In C, the macro NULL may have the type void *, but that is not allowed in C++.. template<> struct hash; A typical usage pattern of this API consists of first calling MultiByteToWideChar to get the size of the result string. If the result is not a representable value for its type, the result is unspecified but the operation otherwise has no undefined behavior. UTF-8 is the most-used Unicode encoding on the Internet. template<> struct hash; A code point is an abstract concept, though. There are no undefined results. Characters for almost all modern languages and many symbols are located in the BMP, and all these BMP characters are represented in UTF-16 using a single 16-bit code unit. The answer to this question leads directly to the concept of Unicode encoding. Basically, a Unicode encoding is a particular, well-defined way of representing Unicode code point values in bits. First, its backward-compatible with ASCII; this means that each valid ASCII character code has the same byte value when encoded using UTF-8. The C++ Standard Library is based upon conventions introduced by the Standard Template Library (STL), and has been influenced by research in generic programming and developers of the STL such as Alexander Stepanov and Meng Lee. The following libraries implement much of the C++ Standard Library: Ever since the modules were introduced in C++20, there has been no support for standard library modules until C++23. First API Call: Getting the Destination Strings Length Now MultiByteToWideChar can be called for the first time, to get the destination UTF-16 strings length: Note how the function is invoked passing zero as the last argument. In IEEE 754, the most common binary representation of floating-point numbers, the positive infinity is the value with all bits of the exponent set and all bits of the fraction cleared. The operation is read-modify-write operation. These may be (but are not required to be) implemented as std::hash::type>. [citation needed]. The Win32 APIs MultiByteToWideChar and WideCharToMultiByte can be used to perform conversions between Unicode text represented using the UTF-8 and UTF-16 encodings. Its UTF-16 encoding instead uses two 16-bit code units, 0xD83C 0xDF7A, an example of a UTF-16 surrogate pair. In case of failure, its time to throw an exception. Memory is affected according to the value of order. The definition of this exception class can start like this: Note that the value returned by GetLastError is of type DWORD, which represents a 32-bit unsigned integer. The solution should be standard-compliant, portable and efficient. According to the official Unicode consortiums Web site (bit.ly/1Rtdulx), Unicode provides a unique number for every character, no matter what the platform, no matter what the program, no matter what the language. Each of these unique numbers is called a code point, and is typically represented using the U+ prefix, followed by the unique number written in hexadecimal form. For floating-point types, the floating-point environment in effect may be different from the calling thread's floating-point environment. tag is the anchor name of the item where the Enforcement rule appears (e.g., for C.134 it is Rh-public), the name of a profile group-of-rules (type, bounds, or lifetime), or a specific rule in a profile (type.4, or bounds.2) "message" is a string literal In.struct: The structure of this document. Provides the member constant value which is equal to true, if T is the type bool, char, char8_t (since C++20), char16_t, char32_t, wchar_t, short, int, long, long long, or any implementation-defined extended integer types, including any signed, unsigned, and cv-qualified variants.Otherwise, value is equal to false. @aschepler Sure. Its values are null pointer constants (see NULL), and may be implicitly converted to any pointer and pointer to member type.. sizeof (std:: nullptr_t) is equal to sizeof (void *). The Conversion Function Interface Lets develop a function to convert Unicode text encoded in UTF-8 to the equivalent text encoded using UTF-16. (public static member function of std::numeric_limits) signaling_NaN [static] returns a signaling NaN value of the given floating-point type (public static member function of std::numeric_limits) C documentation for NAN. [] Notenullptr_t is available in the global namespace when The following files contain the declarations of the C++ Standard Library. This page has been accessed 220,241 times. See also toMSecsSinceEpoch() and setSecsSinceEpoch(). As discussed in the previous paragraphs, Unicode text is represented inside a computers memory using different bits, based on the particular Unicode encoding. For example, in case of invalid UTF-8 sequences in the input string, a typical error code returned by GetLastErorr is ERROR_NO_UNICODE_TRANSLATION. This defaults to hash, which returns a hash value with a probability of collision approaching 1.0/std::numeric_limits::max(). Whatever approach is used, once the size check is done and the length value is found to be suitable for a variable of type int, the cast from size_t to int can be safely performed using static_cast: Note that the UTF-8 strings length is measured in 8-bit char units; that is, in bytes. Besides programming and course authoring, he enjoys helping others on forums and communities devoted to C++, and can be contacted at giovanni.dicanio@gmail.com. The downloadable archive contains an additional source file implementing some test cases, as well. // The example will use the injected std::hash specialization above, // to use MyHash instead, pass it as a second template argument, https://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=cpp/utility/hash&oldid=140837, specializations for enumerations were missing, made SFINAE-friendly via disabled specializations. The macro offsetof expands to an integral constant expression of type std::size_t, the value of which is the offset, in bytes, from the beginning of an object of specified type to its specified subobject, including padding if any.. QRandomGenerator is not comparable (but is copyable) or streamable to std::ostream or from std::istream. When Win32 APIs like MultiByteToWideChar fail, its possible to call GetLastError to get further information about the cause of the failure. IsImaginaryNumber: Returns true if the value has a zero real part. This means 0 is imaginary and 1 + 1i is not: IsInfinity: Returns true if the value represents infinity. The type_index class is a wrapper class around a std::type_info object, that can be used as index in associative and unordered associative containers. So, for example, the Japanese kanji ideograph , which has learning and knowledge among its meanings, is associated to the code point U+5B66. For more information on the sizes and size relationships that the C++ standard requires, see Built-in types.. The capital letter C (U+0043) is encoded in UTF-16 as a single 16-bit code unit 0x0043. Note that passing the minimum of qint64 (std::numeric_limits::min()) to msecs will result in undefined behavior. It was originally developed commercially by Rogue Wave Software and later donated to the Apache Software Foundation. Most C++ programmers are familiar with std::numeric_limits , which at first glance simply provides the same service, implemented differently. String Lengths and Safe Conversions from size_t to int MultiByteToWideChar expects the input string length parameter expressed using the int type, while the length method of the STL string classes returns a value of type equivalent to size_t. The terms multi-byte and wide-char have roots in historical reasons. It's known to be incomplet and incorrekt, and it has lots of b a d for matti n g. Still, checking the API return value is certainly a good, safe coding practice: Else, in case of success, the resulting UTF-16 string can finally be returned to the caller: Usage Sample So, if you have a UTF-8-encoded Unicode string (for example, coming from some C++ cross-platform code) and you want to pass it to a Win32 Unicode-enabled API, this custom conversion function can be invoked like so: The Utf8ToUtf16 function returns a wstring instance containing the UTF-16-encoded string, and the c_str method is invoked on this instance to get a C-style raw pointer to a NUL-terminated string, to be passed to Win32 Unicode-enabled APIs. Its implemented as a header-only C++ library. Blog: A complete report of work done. Each specialization of this template is either enabled ("untainted") or disabled ("poisoned"). IsInteger: Returns true if the value is an integer. In 64-bit builds, the Visual C++ compiler emits a warning signaling a potential loss of data for the conversion from size_t (whose size is 8 bytes) to int (which is 4 bytes in size). In ISO C, functions in the standard library are allowed to be implemented by macros, which is not allowed by ISO C++. The C++ Standard Library underwent ISO standardization as part of the C++ ISO Standardization effort, and is undergoing further work[7] regarding standardization of expanded functionality. More IndicesConstPtr const However, I prefer defining a new custom C++ exception class for that purpose, deriving it from std::runtime_error. input [] NoteWhen consuming whitespace-delimited input (e.g. Program utilities. Each header from the C Standard Library is included in the C++ Standard Library under a different name, generated by removing the .h, and adding a 'c' at the start; for example, 'time.h' becomes 'ctime'. However, preventing the definition of these macros may actually cause problems with other Windows headers, such as , which do require the definitions of these Windows-specific macros. However, this code might actually not compile. The volatile-qualified versions are deprecated if std::atomic::is_always_lock_free is false. Many web browsers, such as Internet Explorer 9, include a download manager. The following behavior-changing defect reports were applied retroactively to previously published C++ standards. The void type. On the other hand, if the Unicode text is encoded in UTF-16, each code unit is represented by 16-bit words. The # option causes the alternate form to be used for the conversion.. For integral types, when binary, octal, or hexadecimal presentation type is used, the alternate form inserts the prefix (0b, 0, or 0x) into the output value after the sign character (possibly space) if there is one, or add it before the output value otherwise.For floating-point types, the alternate form causes the The value immediately preceding the effects of this function in the modification order of *this. https://en.cppreference.com/mwiki/index.php?title=cpp/atomic/atomic/fetch_add&oldid=130157, the other argument of arithmetic addition, adds a non-atomic value to an atomic object and obtains the previous value of the atomic, increments or decrements the atomic value by one. For T* types, the result may be an undefined address, but the operation otherwise has no undefined behavior. Then, some string buffer is allocated according to that size value. When applied to a reference type, the result is the size of the referenced type. template<> struct hash; Returns the special value "positive infinity", as represented by the floating-point type T. Only meaningful if std::numeric_limits::has_infinity == true. template<> struct hash; Wide char refers to wchar_t, so its associated to a wchar_t-based string, which is a UTF-16-encoded string. an ordinary variable, this is perfectly legal and the function will be used like any other function. template<> struct hash; // custom hash can be a standalone function object: // custom specialization of std::hash can be injected in namespace std, " (using injected std::hash specialization), // custom hash makes it possible to use custom types in unordered containers. For UTF-16 strings stored in instances of the std::wstring class, a simple call to the resize method would be just fine: Note that because the length of the input UTF-8 string was explicitly passed to MultiByteToWideChar (instead of just passing -1 and asking the API to scan the whole input string until a NUL-terminator is found), the Win32 API wont add an additional NUL-terminator to the resulting string: The API will just process the exact number of chars in the input string specified by the explicitly passed length value. These supplementary characters outside the BMP are encoded in UTF-16 using two 16-bit code units, also known as surrogate pairs. David Cravey is an Enterprise Architect at GlobalSCAPE, leads several C++ user groups, and was a four-time Visual C++ MVP. However, having code units larger than a single byte implies endianness complications: in fact, there are both big-endian UTF-16 and little-endian UTF-16 (while theres just one endian-neutral UTF-8 encoding). This can come in handy, for example, when you have some cross-platform C++ code that stores UTF-8-encoded Unicode strings using the STL std::string class, and you want to pass that text to Unicode-enabled Win32 APIs, which typically use the UTF-16 encoding. For example, the input UTF-8 string might contain an invalid UTF-8 sequence (which can be the result of a bug in other parts of the code, or it could end up there as a result of some malicious activity). Supplementary characters are located in planes other than the BMP; they include pictographic symbols like Emoji and historic scripts like Egyptian hieroglyphs. Notably, some implementations use trivial (identity) hash functions which map an integer to itself. (For further details, you may want to read my July 2015 article, Using STL Strings at Win32 API Boundaries at msdn.com/magazine/mt238407.) The macro offsetof expands to an integral constant expression of type std::size_t, the value of which is the offset, in bytes, from the beginning of an object of specified type to its specified subobject, including padding if any.. Therefore, theres no need to invoke std::wstring::resize with a utf16Length + 1 value: Because no additional NUL-terminator will be scribbled in by the Win32 API, you dont have to make room for it inside the destination std::wstring (more details on that can be found in my July 2015 article). This instructs the MultiByteToWideChar API to just return the required size for the destination string; no conversion is done in this step. 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