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+/*
+ This file is part of LilyPond, the GNU music typesetter.
+
+ Copyright (C) 2011 Reinhold Kainhofer <reinhold@kainhofer.com>
+
+ LilyPond is free software: you can redistribute it and/or modify
+ it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
+ the Free Software Foundation, either version 3 of the License, or
+ (at your option) any later version.
+
+ LilyPond is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the
+ GNU General Public License for more details.
+
+ You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ along with LilyPond. If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
+*/
+
+#include <glib.h>
+using namespace std;
+
+#include "international.hh"
+#include "warn.hh"
+#include "lily-guile.hh"
+
+
+LY_DEFINE (ly_encode_string_for_pdf, "ly:encode-string-for-pdf",
+ 1, 0, 0, (SCM str),
+ "Encode the given string to either Latin1 (which is a subset of"
+ " the PDFDocEncoding) or if that's not possible to full UTF-16BE"
+ " with Byte-Order-Mark (BOM).")
+{
+ LY_ASSERT_TYPE (scm_is_string, str, 1);
+ char *p = ly_scm2str0 (str);
+ char *g = NULL;
+ char const *charset="UTF-8"; // Input is ALWAYS UTF-8!
+ gsize bytes_written = 0;
+
+ /* First, try to convert to ISO-8859-1 (no encodings required). This will
+ * fail, if the string contains accented characters, so we do not check
+ * for errors. */
+ g = g_convert (p, -1, "ISO-8859-1", charset, 0, &bytes_written, 0);
+ /* If that fails, we have to resolve to full UTF-16BE */
+ if (!g)
+ {
+ GError *e = NULL;
+ char *g_without_BOM = g_convert (p, -1, "UTF-16BE", charset, 0, &bytes_written, &e);
+ if (e != NULL)
+ {
+ warning (_f("Conversion of string `%s' to UTF-16be failed: %s", p, e->message));
+ g_error_free (e);
+ }
+ /* UTF-16BE allows/recommends a byte-order-mark (BOM) of two bytes
+ * \xFE\xFF at the begin of the string. The pdfmark specification
+ * requires it and depends on it to distinguish PdfDocEncoding from
+ * UTF-16BE. As g_convert does not automatically prepend this BOM
+ * for UTF-16BE (only for UTF-16, which uses lower endian by default,
+ * though), we have to prepend it manually. */
+ if (g_without_BOM) // conversion to UTF-16be might have failed (shouldn't!)
+ {
+ g = new char[bytes_written+3];
+ char const *BOM = "\xFE\xFF";
+ strcpy (g, BOM);
+ memcpy (&g[2], g_without_BOM, bytes_written+1); // Copy string + \0
+ free (g_without_BOM);
+ bytes_written += 2;
+ }
+ }
+ free (p);
+
+ /* Convert back to SCM object and return it */
+ /* FIXME guile-2.0: With guile 2.0 the internal representation of a string
+ * has changed (char vector rather than binary bytes in
+ * UTF-8). However, with guile 2.0, ly:encode-string-for-pdf
+ * is no longer needed and can be replaced by the new
+ * (string->utf16 str 'big)
+ */
+ if (g)
+ return scm_take_str (g, bytes_written); // scm_take_str eventually frees g!
+ else
+ return str;
+}