cp.utf16.md

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A pure-LUA implementation of UTF-16 decoding

Submodules

• cp.utf16.be
• cp.utf16.le

API Overview

• Functions - API calls offered directly by the extension
• char
• codepoint
• codes
• offset

API Documentation

Functions

char

Signature	cp.utf16.char(bigEndian, ...) -> string
Type	Function
Description	Receives zero or more integers, converts each one to its corresponding UTF-16 byte sequence and returns a string with the concatenation of all these sequences.
Parameters	bigEndian - If true, the output will list the 'big' bytes first ... - The list of UCL codepoint integers to convert.
Returns	All the codepoints converted to UTF-16, concatonated into a string.

codepoint

Signature	cp.utf16.codepoint(bigEndian, s [, i [, j]]) -> integer...
Type	Function
Description	Returns the codepoints (as integers) from all characters in s that start between byte position i and j (both included). The default for i is 1 and for j is i. It raises an error if it meets any invalid byte sequence.
Parameters	bigEndian - (optional) If set to true, the string is encoded in 'big-endian' format. s - The string i - The starting index. Defaults to 1. j - The ending index. Defaults to i.
Returns	a list of codepoint integers for all characters in the matching range.

codes

Signature	cp.utf16.codes(bigEndian, s) -> iterator
Type	Function
Description	Returns values so that the construction
Parameters	bigEndian - If true, the provided string is in 'big-endian' encoding. s - The string to iterate through.
Returns	An iterator

offset

Signature	cp.utf16.offset (bigEndian, s, n [, i]) -> number
Type	Function
Description	Returns the position (in bytes) where the encoding of the n-th character of s (counting from position i) starts. A negative n gets characters before position i. The default for i is 1 when n is non-negative and #s + 1 otherwise, so that utf8.offset(s, -n) gets the offset of the n-th character from the end of the string. If the specified character is neither in the subject nor right after its end, the function returns nil.
Parameters	bigEndian - If true, the encoding is 'big-endian'. Defaults to false s - The string n - The character number to find. i - The initial position to start from.
Returns	The index