stdlib/public/core/UnicodeEncoding.swift

//===--- UnicodeEncoding.swift --------------------------------------------===//
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// Licensed under Apache License v2.0 with Runtime Library Exception
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//===----------------------------------------------------------------------===//

public protocol _UnicodeEncoding {
  /// The basic unit of encoding
  associatedtype CodeUnit : UnsignedInteger, FixedWidthInteger
  
  /// A valid scalar value as represented in this encoding
  associatedtype EncodedScalar : BidirectionalCollection
    where EncodedScalar.Iterator.Element == CodeUnit

  /// The replacement character U+FFFD as represented in this encoding
  static var encodedReplacementCharacter : EncodedScalar { get }

  /// Converts from encoded to encoding-independent representation
  static func decode(_ content: EncodedScalar) -> UnicodeScalar

  /// Converts from encoding-independent to encoded representation
  static func encode(_ content: UnicodeScalar) -> EncodedScalar

  associatedtype ForwardParser : UnicodeParser
  associatedtype ReverseParser : UnicodeParser
  
  //===--------------------------------------------------------------------===//
  // FIXME: this requirement shouldn't be here and is mitigated by the default
  // implementation below.  Compiler bugs prevent it from being expressed in an
  // intermediate, underscored protocol.
  /// Returns true if `x` only appears in this encoding as the representation of
  /// a complete scalar value.
  static func _isScalar(_ x: CodeUnit) -> Bool
}

extension _UnicodeEncoding {
  // See note on declaration of requirement, above
  public static func _isScalar(_ x: CodeUnit) -> Bool { return false }
}

public protocol UnicodeEncoding : _UnicodeEncoding
where ForwardParser.Encoding == Self, ReverseParser.Encoding == Self {}