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u8_validate(3C) 					   Standard C Library Functions 					   u8_validate(3C)

NAME
u8_validate - validate UTF-8 characters and calculate the byte length SYNOPSIS
#include <sys/u8_textprep.h> int u8_validate(char *u8str, size_t n, char **list, int flag, int *errnum); PARAMETERS
u8str The UTF-8 string to be validated. n The maximum number of bytes in u8str that can be examined and validated. list A list of null-terminated character strings in UTF-8 that must be additionally checked against as invalid characters. The last string in list must be null to indicate there is no further string. flag Possible validation options constructed by a bitwise-inclusive-OR of the following values: U8_VALIDATE_ENTIRE By default, u8_validate() looks at the first character or up to n bytes, whichever is smaller in terms of the number of bytes to be consumed, and returns with the result. When this option is used, u8_validate() will check up to n bytes from u8str and possibly more than a character before return- ing the result. U8_VALIDATE_CHECK_ADDITIONAL By default, u8_validate() does not use list supplied. When this option is supplied with a list of character strings, u8_validate() additionally validates u8str against the charac- ter strings supplied with list and returns EBADF in errnum if u8str has any one of the character strings in list. U8_VALIDATE_UCS2_RANGE By default, u8_validate() uses the entire Unicode coding space of U+0000 to U+10FFFF. When this option is specified, the valid Unicode coding space is smaller to U+0000 to U+FFFF. errnum An error occurred during validation. The following values are supported: EBADF Validation failed because list-specified characters were found in the string pointed to by u8str. EILSEQ Validation failed because an illegal byte was found in the string pointed to by u8str. EINVAL Validation failed because an incomplete byte was found in the string pointed to by u8str. ERANGE Validation failed because character bytes were encountered that are outside the range of the Unicode coding space. DESCRIPTION
The u8_validate() function validates u8str in UTF-8 and determines the number of bytes constituting the character(s) pointed to by u8str. RETURN VALUES
If u8str is a null pointer, u8_validate() returns 0. Otherwise, u8_validate() returns either the number of bytes that constitute the char- acters if the next n or fewer bytes form valid characters, or -1 if there is an validation failure, in which case it may set errnum to indicate the error. EXAMPLES
Example 1 Determine the length of the first UTF-8 character. #include <sys/u8_textprep.h> char u8[MAXPATHLEN]; int errnum; . . . len = u8_validate(u8, 4, (char **)NULL, 0, &errnum); if (len == -1) { switch (errnum) { case EILSEQ: case EINVAL: return (MYFS4_ERR_INVAL); case EBADF: return (MYFS4_ERR_BADNAME); case ERANGE: return (MYFS4_ERR_BADCHAR); default: return (-10); } } Example 2 Check if there are any invalid characters in the entire string. #include <sys/u8_textprep.h> char u8[MAXPATHLEN]; int n; int errnum; . . . n = strlen(u8); len = u8_validate(u8, n, (char **)NULL, U8_VALIDATE_ENTIRE, &errnum); if (len == -1) { switch (errnum) { case EILSEQ: case EINVAL: return (MYFS4_ERR_INVAL); case EBADF: return (MYFS4_ERR_BADNAME); case ERANGE: return (MYFS4_ERR_BADCHAR); default: return (-10); } } Example 3 Check if there is any invalid character, including prohibited characters, in the entire string. #include <sys/u8_textprep.h> char u8[MAXPATHLEN]; int n; int errnum; char *prohibited[4] = { ".", "..", "\", NULL }; . . . n = strlen(u8); len = u8_validate(u8, n, prohibited, (U8_VALIDATE_ENTIRE|U8_VALIDATE_CHECK_ADDITIONAL), &errnum); if (len == -1) { switch (errnum) { case EILSEQ: case EINVAL: return (MYFS4_ERR_INVAL); case EBADF: return (MYFS4_ERR_BADNAME); case ERANGE: return (MYFS4_ERR_BADCHAR); default: return (-10); } } ATTRIBUTES
See attributes(5) for descriptions of the following attributes: +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ | ATTRIBUTE TYPE | ATTRIBUTE VALUE | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |Interface Stability |Committed | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ |MT-Level |MT-Safe | +-----------------------------+-----------------------------+ SEE ALSO
u8_strcmp(3C), u8_textprep_str(3C), attributes(5), u8_strcmp(9F), u8_textprep_str(9F), u8_validate(9F) The Unicode Standard (http://www.unicode.org) SunOS 5.11 18 Sep 2007 u8_validate(3C)
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