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Even though BOM is rarely used these days, I find it useful to be able
detect it sometimes.

I added new function that detects all the BOMs listed in Wikipedia.

Currently UTF-32LE doesn't work for some reason. I'll investigate why.
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RauliL committed Oct 16, 2024
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2 changes: 1 addition & 1 deletion CMakeLists.txt
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PROJECT(
PeeloUnicode
VERSION 1.0.0
VERSION 1.1.0
DESCRIPTION "Header only C++ Unicode utilities."
HOMEPAGE_URL "https://github.com/peelonet/peelo-unicode"
LANGUAGES CXX
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}
}
```

## BOM detection

The library provides function for detecting whether an byte string contains
[byte order mark] or not, and which character encoding it is. Even though use
of BOM is rare these days, it might sometimes be useful to able to detect it.

List of detected character encodings are:

- [UTF-8]
- [UTF-16BE][UTF-16]
- [UTF-16LE][UTF-16]
- [UTF-32BE][UTF-32]
- [UTF-32LE][UTF-32]
- [UTF-7]
- [UTF-1]
- [UTF-EBCDIC]
- [SCSU]
- [BOCU-1]
- [GB18030]

[Byte order mark]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byte_order_mark
[UTF-7]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-7
[UTF-1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-1
[UTF-EBCDIC]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/UTF-EBCDIC
[SCSU]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Standard_Compression_Scheme_for_Unicode
[BOCU-1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_Ordered_Compression_for_Unicode
[GB18030]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GB_18030

### Example

```cpp
#include <fstream>
#include <iostream>
#include <peelo/unicode/bom.hpp>

int
main()
{
char buffer[1024];
std::fstream f("file.txt");
std::size_t length;

f.read(buffer, sizeof(buffer));
length = f.gcount();
f.close();

if (const auto bom = peelo::unicode::detect_bom(buffer, length))
{
if (*bom == peelo::unicode::bom::utf16_be)
{
std::cout << "File has UTF-16BE BOM." << std::endl;
} else {
std::cout << "File has some other BOM." << std::endl;
}
} else {
std::cout << "File does not contain BOM." << std::endl;
}
}
```
160 changes: 160 additions & 0 deletions include/peelo/unicode/bom.hpp
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/*
* Copyright (c) 2018-2024, peelo.net
* All rights reserved.
*
* Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
* modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions are met:
*
* * Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright notice,
* this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
*
* * Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright notice,
* this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the documentation
* and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
*
* THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY THE COPYRIGHT HOLDERS AND CONTRIBUTORS "AS IS"
* AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
* IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
* ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL THE COPYRIGHT HOLDER OR CONTRIBUTORS BE
* LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR
* CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF
* SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
* INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
* CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
* ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF THE
* POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
*/
#pragma once

#include <array>
#include <cstring>
#include <optional>
#include <string>

namespace peelo::unicode
{
/**
* Enumeration of different recognized BOM types.
*/
enum class bom
{
utf8,
utf16_be,
utf16_le,
utf32_be,
utf32_le,
utf7,
utf1,
utf_ebcdic,
scsu,
bocu_1,
gb18030,
};

/**
* Tests whether given byte string contains byte order mark or not.
*
* @param input Byte string to test.
* @param length Length of the given byte string.
* @return Byte order mark detected in the given byte string, or null option
* if the given byte string does not contain byte order mark.
*/
inline std::optional<bom>
detect_bom(const char* input, std::size_t length)
{
struct bom_info
{
const char* bytes;
std::size_t length;
bom type;
};
static constexpr std::size_t bom_array_size = 11;
static const std::array<bom_info, bom_array_size> bom_array =
{{
{
"\xef\xbb\xbf",
3,
bom::utf8,
},
{
"\0\0\xfe\xff",
4,
bom::utf32_be,
},
{
"\xff\xfe\0\0",
4,
bom::utf32_le,
},
{
"\xfe\xff",
2,
bom::utf16_be,
},
{
"\xff\xfe",
2,
bom::utf16_le,
},
{
"\x2b\x2f\x76",
3,
bom::utf7,
},
{
"\xf7\x64\x4c",
3,
bom::utf1,
},
{
"\xdd\x73\x66\x73",
4,
bom::utf_ebcdic
},
{
"\x0e\xfe\xff",
3,
bom::scsu
},
{
"\xfb\xee\x28",
3,
bom::bocu_1
},
{
"\x84\x31\x95\x33",
4,
bom::gb18030
},
}};

for (std::size_t i = 0; i < bom_array_size; ++i)
{
const auto& info = bom_array[i];

if (length < info.length)
{
continue;
}
else if (!std::memcmp(input, info.bytes, info.length))
{
return info.type;
}
}

return std::nullopt;
}

/**
* Tests whether given string contains byte order mark or not.
*
* @param input String to test.
* @return Byte order mark detected in the given byte string, or null option
* if the given byte string does not contain byte order mark.
*/
inline std::optional<bom>
detect_bom(const std::string& input)
{
return detect_bom(input.c_str(), input.length());
}
}
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#include <cassert>
#include <iostream> // TODO: remove me

#include <peelo/unicode/bom.hpp>

using peelo::unicode::detect_bom;
using peelo::unicode::bom;

static void
test_recognized_bom(
bom expected_type,
const char* input,
std::size_t length
)
{
// This looks weird but in GitHub CI I get warnings about unused variables if
// I do this in some other way.
if (const auto result = detect_bom(input, length))
{
assert(*result == expected_type);
} else {
assert(false);
}
}

static void
test_utf8()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf8, "\xef\xbb\xbf", 3);
}

static void
test_utf16_be()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf16_be, "\xfe\xff", 2);
}

static void
test_utf16_le()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf16_le, "\xff\xfe", 2);
}

static void
test_utf32_be()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf32_be, "\0\0\xfe\xff", 4);
}

static void
test_utf32_le()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf32_le, "\xff\xfe\0\0", 4);
}

static void
test_utf7()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf7, "\x2b\x2f\x76", 3);
}

static void
test_utf1()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf1, "\xf7\x64\x4c", 3);
}

static void
test_utf_ebcdic()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::utf_ebcdic, "\xdd\x73\x66\x73", 4);
}

static void
test_scsu()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::scsu, "\x0e\xfe\xff", 3);
}

static void
test_bocu_1()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::bocu_1, "\xfb\xee\x28", 3);
}

static void
test_gb18030()
{
test_recognized_bom(bom::gb18030, "\x84\x31\x95\x33", 4);
}

static void
test_unrecognized_bom()
{
assert(!detect_bom("", 0));
assert(!detect_bom("a", 1));
assert(!detect_bom("a\xef\xbb\xbf", 4));
assert(!detect_bom("\x00\xbb\xbf\xef\xbb\xbf", 6));
}

static void
test_with_string()
{
assert(!!detect_bom(std::string("\xef\xbb\xbf")));
assert(!detect_bom(std::string("a")));
}

int
main()
{
test_utf8();
test_utf16_be();
test_utf16_le();
test_utf32_be();
test_utf32_le();
test_utf7();
test_utf1();
test_utf_ebcdic();
test_scsu();
test_bocu_1();
test_gb18030();
test_unrecognized_bom();
test_with_string();
}

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