UniCreateTransformObject

UniCreateTransformObject creates a string transform object.

Syntax

int UniCreateTransformObject (const LocaleObject locale_object, const UniChar *xtype, XformObject *xform_object)

Parameters

locale_object (const LocaleObject)

A locale object created by UniCreateLocaleObject or NULL.

xtype (const UniChar *)

A UniChar string identifying the transform type.

xform_object (XformObject *)

An address that will receive a pointer to an XformObject upon successful completion of UniCreateTransformObject.

Returns

Return value (int) - returns

ULS_SUCCESS

No errors; the xform_object argument points to a valid transformation object.

ULS_UNSUPPORTED

The transformation name type specified by the xtype argument is not supported for locale_object.

Remarks

UniCreateTransformObject obtains a transformation object for a transformation type as defined in the locale indicated by the locale_object argument. The function returns a transformation object that can be used as an argument in UniTransformStr.

The following transformation types are defined in all locales:

lower

Transform to lowercase characters. A character that does not have a lowercase form is returned as itself.

upper

Transform to uppercase characters. A character that does not have an uppercase form is returned as itself.

compose

Transform to fully composed form for combined characters.

decompose

Transform to a string of decomposed characters where multiple characters are used to represent base and diacritics.

hiragana

Transform so that Japanese phonetic characters are in hiragana

katakana

Transform so that Japanese phonetic characters are in full size katakana

kana

Transform so that Japanese phonetic characters are in half size katakana

In addition to the above transformation-type names, other transformation-type names in the locale (including user-defined transformation-type names) may be passed to UniCreateTransformObject through the xtype argument. To obtain a successful return, the transformation-type name must be defined in locale_object.

When UniCreateTransformObject completes without errors, the xform_object argument value specifies a valid pointer to a transformation object. The transformation object should be used in all subsequent calls to UniTransformStr. If the function result is other than ULS_SUCCESS, the contents of the area pointed to by xform_object are undefined.

Example

This example shows how to create and use a transform object.

#include <stdio.h>
#include <unidef.h>

int main(void) {

     LocaleObject locale_object = NULL;
     XformObject  xform_object = NULL;
     int          rc = ULS_SUCCESS;
     int          in_unistr_elem = 0;
     int          out_unistr_elem = 10;
     UniChar      *pin_unistr = (UniChar *)L"os2";
     UniChar      out_unistr[10];

     /*****************************************************************/
     /* Assumes LANG environment variable set to a valid locale name, */
     /* such as fr_FR                                                 */
     /*****************************************************************/
     rc = UniCreateLocaleObject(UNI_UCS_STRING_POINTER,
                               (UniChar *)L"", &locale_object);
     if (rc != ULS_SUCCESS) {
       printf("UniCreateLocaleObject error: return code = %u\n", rc);
       return 1;
     }

     /* Create an upper case transform object */
     rc = UniCreateTransformObject(locale_object,
                                  (UniChar *)L"upper", &xform_object);
     if (rc != ULS_SUCCESS) {
       printf("UniCreateTransformObject error: return code = %u\n", rc);
       return 1;
     }

     /* Calculate the number of elements to transform */
     in_unistr_elem = UniStrlen (pin_unistr) + 1;

     /* Make call to transform input string to uppercase */
     rc = UniTransformStr(xform_object, pin_unistr,
                         &in_unistr_elem, out_unistr,
                         &out_unistr_elem);
     if (rc != ULS_SUCCESS) {
       printf("UniTransformStr error: return code = %u\n", rc);
       return 1;
     }

     return ULS_SUCCESS;
} 
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Format
#include <unidef.h>

int UniCreateTransformObject (
    const LocaleObject locale_object,    /* I  - Locale object    */
    const UniChar      *xtype,           /* I  - Transform type   */
    XformObject        *xform_object     /* O  - Transform object */
)

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Related Functions
* UniFreeTransformObject