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/*
 * punycode from RFC 3492
 * http://www.nicemice.net/idn/
 * Adam M. Costello
 * http://www.nicemice.net/amc/
 */

#ifndef _PUNYCODE_H
#define _PUNYCODE_H

#include <stdlib.h>    /* size_t */
#include <windows.h>   /* DWORD etc. */

typedef enum punycode_status {
        punycode_success,
        punycode_bad_input,      /* Input is invalid.                       */
        punycode_big_output,     /* Output would exceed the space provided. */
        punycode_overflow        /* Input needs wider integers to process.  */
      } punycode_status;

/*
 * punycode_encode() converts Unicode to Punycode.  The input
 * is represented as an array of Unicode code points (not code
 * units; surrogate pairs are not allowed), and the output
 * will be represented as an array of ASCII code points.  The
 * output string is *not* null-terminated; it will contain
 * zeros if and only if the input contains zeros.  (Of course
 * the caller can leave room for a terminator and add one if
 * needed.)  The input_length is the number of code points in
 * the input.  The output_length is an in/out argument: the
 * caller passes in the maximum number of code points that it
 * can receive, and on successful return it will contain the
 * number of code points actually output.  The case_flags array
 * holds input_length boolean values, where nonzero suggests that
 * the corresponding Unicode character be forced to uppercase
 * after being decoded (if possible), and zero suggests that
 * it be forced to lowercase (if possible).  ASCII code points
 * are encoded literally, except that ASCII letters are forced
 * to uppercase or lowercase according to the corresponding
 * uppercase flags.  If case_flags is a null pointer then ASCII
 * letters are left as they are, and other code points are
 * treated as if their uppercase flags were zero.  The return
 * value can be any of the punycode_status values defined above
 * except punycode_bad_input; if not punycode_success, then
 * output_size and output might contain garbage.
 */
enum punycode_status punycode_encode (DWORD input_length,
                                      const DWORD *input,
                                      const BYTE *case_flags,
                                      size_t *output_length,
                                      char *output);


/*
 * punycode_decode() converts Punycode to Unicode.  The input is
 * represented as an array of ASCII code points, and the output
 * will be represented as an array of Unicode code points.  The
 * input_length is the number of code points in the input.  The
 * output_length is an in/out argument: the caller passes in
 * the maximum number of code points that it can receive, and
 * on successful return it will contain the actual number of
 * code points output.  The case_flags array needs room for at
 * least output_length values, or it can be a null pointer if the
 * case information is not needed.  A nonzero flag suggests that
 * the corresponding Unicode character be forced to uppercase
 * by the caller (if possible), while zero suggests that it be
 * forced to lowercase (if possible).  ASCII code points are
 * output already in the proper case, but their flags will be set
 * appropriately so that applying the flags would be harmless.
 * The return value can be any of the punycode_status values
 * defined above; if not punycode_success, then output_length,
 * output, and case_flags might contain garbage.  On success, the
 * decoder will never need to write an output_length greater than
 * input_length, because of how the encoding is defined.
 */
enum punycode_status punycode_decode (DWORD input_length,
                                      const char *input,
                                      size_t *output_length,
                                      DWORD *output,
                                      BYTE *case_flags);
#endif

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